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Mutiny on the Bounty

A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds

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Mutiny on the Bounty

By: Peter FitzSimons
Narrated by: Michael Carman
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About this listen

 The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.

Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a small open boat. In one of history's great feats of seamanship, Bligh navigated this tiny vessel for 3618 nautical miles to Timor.

Fletcher Christian and the mutineers sailed back to Tahiti, where most remained and were later tried for mutiny. But Christian, along with eight fellow mutineers and some Tahitian men and women, sailed off into the unknown, eventually discovering the isolated Pitcairn Island - at the time not even marked on British maps - and settling there.

This astonishing story is historical adventure at its very best, encompassing the mutiny, Bligh's monumental achievement in navigating to safety, and Fletcher Christian and the mutineers' own epic journey from the sensual paradise of Tahiti to the outpost of Pitcairn Island. The mutineers' descendants live on Pitcairn to this day, amid swirling stories and rumours of past sexual transgressions and present-day repercussions. Mutiny on the Bounty is a sprawling, dramatic tale of intrigue, bravery and sheer boldness, told with the accuracy of historical detail and total command of story that are Peter FitzSimons' trademarks. 18th Century Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Maritime History & Piracy Modern Oceania World Sailing Scary Thought-Provoking

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If you have watched the classic Mel Gibson / Anthony Hopkins film then you will not be disappointed with this!, I nearly didn't buy it as assumed the film covered the whole story but there is so much more to it and its all featured in this absolute masterpiece of a book. The narration is second to none with the angry Cornish accent of captain bligh bringing the whole thing to life. Highly recommend!

Just brilliant!! - a masterpiece of narration

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Thoroughly enjoyed this reading....... A reminder of forgotten detail of this story. Britain' s interesting history.

Histocally interesting,...

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brilliantly narrated, full of detail without becoming boring, I was completely hooked. I highly recommend this audio book and will be listening to other books by the author and narrator.

fascinating

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Really enjoyed, fantastic story which was well narrated and written. I recommend to anyone who is remotely interested in history and learning the truth.

Gripping tale of Mutiny,Betrayal and Murder!

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I have never read or listened to a tale of such epic proportions. the amount of work, detail and research which has gone into the writing of this book is evident. the detail and story is wonderfully laced with adventure and survival often with gruesome detail. I began documenting each and every word I was not familiar with, but soon had a small dictionary of my own, I will endeavour to try and use as many as I can remember.
the journey I've been on listening to this story hasn't always been am enjoyable one. sometimes the level of detail is overwhelming. to say I don't think it's a masterpiece would be untrue. but I did have to increase the speed of the storytelling towards the end just to reach the end.
hugely enjoyable.

An epic story of gargantuan scale.

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