The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh

About the Book

William Bligh is best known as the cause of the mutiny on the Bounty. He was also the victim of two other mutinies. Yet when he died he was a vice-admiral of the British navy. How was that possible? If ever a person learned to profit from adversity, it was William Bligh.

About the Author

Roy E. Schreiber has his Ph.D. from London University. He visited many of the places William Bligh visited. Sailing has occupied a good deal of his time since he was a teenager, and he has skippered assorted sailboats in the USA, Great Britain, the West Indies and Australia.