"The Bounty" by Caroline Alexander 1st/1st HC/DJ 2003 Mutiny Captain Bligh

Description: "The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty" was written by Caroline Alexander and published by Viking in New York in 2003. This is a hardcover, first edition, first printing of this exceptional and superbly illustrated 491-page account of arguably the most famous mutiny in naval history. The book is highlighted not only by Alexander's deft storytelling but by excellent color and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps throughout. The original price, as shown on the dustjacket front flap, was $27.95.From the dustjacket blurb:“Just before sunrise on the morning of April 28, 1789, in the far reaches of the South Pacific, Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and three other men, armed with cutlasses, bayonets and a musket, apprehended Lieutenant William Bligh and placed him and eighteen officers and crewmen in a small boat. This mutiny on board His Majesty’s armed transport Bounty impelled every man on a fateful course—Bligh and his loyalists on a historic boat voyage, Christian and his followers on their restless exile. Bligh himself returned to Britain as a hero, but that was not his final destiny. Ten of the Bounty’s crew were eventually captured in Tahiti and brought back to England in irons to face their day in court, and it was in the dynamics and politics of their court martial and its aftermath that the story we know—or think we know—as the mutiny on the Bounty was shaped.“Caroline Alexander’s last book, ‘The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition,’ was a landmark recounting of one of the last great adventures in the heroic age of exploration. Now she gives us the definitive and surprising account of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of seagoing voyages.“The facts of the mutiny itself are told in Admiralty records, but for the truth behind the story Alexander has ranged further, gleaning details from the wills, diaries and correspondence of figures not obviously connected to the events, from obscure news items an from the biographies and family pedigrees of seemingly minor players. She casts a radical new light on the events, on Bligh’s character and on a welter of family connections and special interests that play crucial roles at different moments in the story. Using contemporary accounts, and particularly the mutineers’ own testimony, she allows the men themselves to conjure the events and transport the reader back to the deck of the Bounty, to exotic islands in the South Pacific and to the back rooms of British naval power. Only when we look at the whole story, from before the Bounty left England until well after the death of the last participant, do we understand what happened and why. “Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.”The book is in fine, collectible condition, with no torn or bent pages, no scratches, stains or inscriptions, no remainder marks, no price-clipping, no bookplate, no ex-library, no book club edition, no flaws of any sort. It is as new.The dustjacket is in equally fine shape and is protected in a clear and removable archival cover. Please see the photos for a fuller description and author profile.BLK BOX 4PLEASE SEE THE OTHER TITLES NOW LISTED IN MY EBAY STORE: DISTANT VOYAGE BOOKSPAYPAL PREFERREDWill combine shipping.All items are well packed and are normally mailed within two days of payment being received.My 100% feedback rating is valuable to me. If you are satisfied with a transaction, please leave feedback and I will do the same.Questions welcome. Additional photographs on request.Note: Scrolling through my listings will locate books in these and many other categories:Animals; Art & Architecture; Biography; Children’s; Collecting & Collectibles; Entertainment, Film & Theater; Fiction; Food & Drink; Gardening; History; Military; Music; Natural History; Nautical; Photography; Science & Technology; Travel; Space; Sports; Transportation. New Listings added almost daily.

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