Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare - Softcover

Toohey, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060959525 ISBN 13: 9780060959524

Publisher: Perennial, 2001

Synopsis

Describes what happened to Captain Bligh after the famed 1789 mutiny on the HMS Bounty as he traveled halfway across the Pacific to Java on a twenty-three-foot launch with eighteen crew members. Reprint.

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Review:

"After the mutiny abroad the Bounty, Captain William Bligh and a few loyal crewmen crossed most of the Pacific in an open boat, an epic feat in any age. John Toohey brings this tragic, doomed man and his desperate voyage vividly to life in this fascinating new book."
―Stephen Coonts, New York Times-bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder

"Beautiful written and wonderfully researched. This book will educate and entertain you."
―Sunday Times (London)

"Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare is highly imaginative and vividly evokes what it might been like for Bligh and his men during a nearly fatal open-boat voyage."
―New York Times Book Review

"This fiercely lyrical, stylish chronicle is likely to resurrect debate over the mutiny, Bligh's character and his place in history."
―Publisher's Weekly

About the Author:

John Toohey is a photographer, historian, and journalist. He was born in Australia and now lives in Montreal, Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060959525
• ISBN 13: 9780060959524
• Binding: Paperback