![]() Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. Walking a dangerous line between an unhappy crew and a captain he comes to admire, he finds himself in a no-man's land where the distinction between friend and foe is increasingly difficult to determine. The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall 4. The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. For the ship is HMS Bounty, his new captain William Bligh and their destination Tahiti.įrom the moment the ship leaves port, Turnstile's life is turned upside down, for not only must he put his own demons to rest, but he must also confront the many adversaries he will encounter on the Bounty's extraordinary last voyage. Mutiny on the Bounty Books about and relating to the mutiny which took place onboard HMV Bounty on the 28th April 1789. In December 1787, a fourteen-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, is arrested in Portsmouth for picking the pocket of a mysterious. ![]() Little does he realise that it is anything but - and by accepting the devil's bargain he will put his life in perilous danger. Mutiny on the Bounty Book Vintage 1932 Nordhoff & Hall 49th Print Atlantic Monthly Press Books Hardcover No Dust Jacket Ex Library with Library marks. ![]() Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain. A fresh and exciting new telling of a classic nautical adventure by the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ![]()
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