Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn Island
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
The pack consists of three novels: The mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the sea and Pitcairn Island.
Mutiny on the Bounty
In 1788, the Bounty set sail from England bound for Tahiti. The crew suffers the abuse of Captain Bligh until Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on board. This is the story of the mutiny on the Bounty occurred in 1788 as we had the midshipman Roger Byam , whose story begins with these words: " Many times I wanted to follow the example of other retired officers and spend all the time of leisure that has an old man like me to tell, with the help of my diary and in as much detail as possible, some of the episodes of my life at sea. I made the decision last night. I said I could write about my first boat, the Bounty, the mutiny on board . "
Men against the sea
In Men against the sea discover how Captain William Bligh not as ruthless as the rebels thought, he undertook a very risky journey into the open boat overloaded the Bounty from the scene of riots to Timor. The master boasts a concern for the health of his men which results in minimal loss of life, in a time when disease decimated the crews on transoceanic voyages. Thanks to their expertise and cooperation of the sailors get sailor disprove the axiom " ship without cover, open grave."
Island of Pitcairn
Fletcher Christian in 1789 , the instigator of the mutiny on the Bounty , took refuge in a small and desolate Pacific island, with eight of his men and a group of native Polynesians. For eighteen years, nobody knew anything about them until the arrival of Topaz, found an unexpected mixed colony consisting of a few Polynesian women, surrounded by dozens of children and only one survivor, an English white beard, Alexander Smith . Of the sixteen men killed during those years, fifteen had died violently. On Pitcairn Island , culminating the exciting trilogy about the Bounty mutiny , Nordhoff and Hall masterfully recreates the tragic outcome of a group of men trapped by loneliness, alcohol and degradation.
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