Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Perennial
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: Reprint

Description: 211 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and age marks on page edges present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: It is dawn, April 28, 1789. Captain William Bligh, commander of the HMS Bounty, and his eighteen men are herded by mutineers onto a twenty-three-foot launch and abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Covering 4,162 miles on the way to Java, the small boat and its men are subject to storms, illness, starvation, and attacks by islanders. Still, the journey stands as one of the greatest achievements in European seafaring history -- and a personal triumph for the historically misjudged Bligh. Captain Blighs Portable Nightmare reveals, in vivid and breathtaking detail, Blighs astounding mapmaking skills, explores his guilt over Captain Cooks death, and discusses the failure of the Bounty expedition. Combining extensive research with gripping storytelling, Toohey tells a compelling tale of exploration, mutiny, and survival -- while reinstating Captain William Bligh as a legendary hero.

ISBN: 9780060959524