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William Bligh

William Bligh (1754-1815) will forever be remembered for the mutiny on the Bounty, which took place in 1789Shortly after leaving Tahiti, where they had been gathering breadfruits, the mutineers, led by Bligh’s second-in-command Fletcher Christian, cast their Captain and 14 loyal crewmen adrift in a small boat with only a week’s rations and a compass. Fortunately Bligh was a master navigator who had served on Cook’s third and final voyage, and he succeeded in reaching Timor, the nearest European settlement, after a 47-day, 4000 mile voyage, with only one casualty. Probably the greatest feat of seamanship in the annals of British maritime endeavour.

There is a considerable body of literature associated with Bligh, notably A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship "Bounty" (1790); A Voyage to the south Sea undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship the Bounty (1792); The search for, and capture of some of the mutineers, as recorded in George Hamilton’s A Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora (1793), a wonderful, immensely readable account of a disastrous voyage; and of course the three exceedingly rare court-martial pamphlets.

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  • Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia,

    BLIGH, William; Owen Rutter, editor.
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    A beautifully bound copy of Bligh's log of the journey from Timor to Batavia, and that of the return voyage to England after the 1789 mutiny.First...

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  • A Voyage to the South Sea;

    BLIGH, William.
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    The excessively rare advance issue of the voyage. Excessively rare. One of a handful of known copies of a special advance issue of Bligh's narrativ...

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