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The Bounty

Name: The Bounty
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Author: Caroline Alexander
ISBN: 9780142004692

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Published on May 25, 2004 | 544 Pages

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Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions.

More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.

“With this and her previous book, The Endurance, [Alexander] has made the wondrous genre of open-boat-voyage narratives still more wondrous.” —The New York Times

“Meticulously researched and smoothly readable.” —The Washington Post

“A rollicking sea adventure told with enormous confidence and style.” —Booklist (starred review)

“Alexander profiles history’s most famous mutiny in the same stylish manner she brought to Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition (The Endurance).” —Kirkus Reviews

“Alexander’s work is destined to become the definitive, enthralling history of a great seafaring adventure.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

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Caroline Alexander

Caroline Alexander was born in Florida to British parents and has lived in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. She studied philosophy and theology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and has a doctorate in classics from Columbia University. She is the author of the bestselling The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, which has been translated into thirteen languages. She writes frequently for The New Yorker and National Geographic, and she is the author of four other books, including Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition, the journal of the Endurance ship’s cat.

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