Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas
A Companion to the Bounty Adventure
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About the Book
Who has not heard of the mutiny on the Bounty? For two hundred years this event has fired the imagination of millions of people, countless books have been written on it, and five motion pictures—so far—dramitized it on the screen.
This book is unique in the literature on the mutiny and is the first companion volume to the story. The first part, the Bounty Chronicle, gives a panoramic, yet detailed, month-by-month account of the events, starting before the Bounty’s departure and ending with Fletcher Christian’s death on Pitcairn Island. It even chronicles Captain Bligh’s second breadfruit expedition of which so many people are unaware.
The second part of the book, the Bounty Encyclopedia, is full of all the exciting and fascinating details surrounding this great story.About the Author
Sven Wahlroos, Ph.D., is in a unique position to write about the mutiny on the Bounty. He became fascinated with the subject when he was a little boy in Finland and has studied the literature on it all his life. He is a sailor and an old South Seas hand who has made numerous and extended voyages to the islands of Polynesia.