William Bligh: 14 books

The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. Here is the full text of Captain Bligh's personal journal entries aboard the Bounty. The tale of this infamous mutiny began near the island known today...

"Bei einem so geheim angelegten Plan und bei meiner Arglosigkeit ist es wohl kein Wunder, dass ich überlistet worden bin." William Bligh Er entstammt einer Seefahrerfamilie und legt eiserne Disziplin an den Tag: William Bligh ist der geborene Kapitän. Seine Reisen in die Südsee sind erfolgreich, Fracht...

Comment survivre au milieu de l'océan Pacifique ? Août 1787, le gouvernement anglais nomme William Bligh commandant du navire Bounty de 215 tonneaux, portant 4 canons de 6,4 pierriers et ayant 45 hommes à bord. Parti pour l'océan Pacifique, il séjourne 6 mois à Tahiti afin de récolter...

On 28th April 1789 a small and unremarkable merchant vessel became one of the most famous ships in maritime history. HMS Bounty was under the command of 34-year-old Lieutenant William Bligh, an inexperienced commander who lacked the respect of a crew attracted to the promise of an easy life in a Tahitian...

The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning,...

William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred. William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were expelled from the "Bounty" onto a small...

Cast out from their ship by Fletcher Christian and his rebel band, William Bligh and eighteen seamen were forced to journey thousands of miles to the nearest port in a small open boat, with inadequate supplies and without a compass or charts. This time-honored classic, written in 1790, is Bligh's...

The Mutiny of the Bounty is one of the most famous stories in maritime history that has been told in countless books and motion pictures. It describes the arduous voyage of the H.M.S. Bounty, under the harsh rule of the strict Captain Bligh, and the eventual mutiny of much of the crew led by the Mutineer...

In the long history of the Royal Navy the mutiny on board HMS Bounty has long had a strange fascination. Life on board was harsh as it was across all ships. Here the Captain who was deposed from his ship gives us his account.

Norfolk Island History, and Tourism. Discovery and Settlement. A Book on Norfolk Island. A later colonial convict settlement began in 1825, when it was decided that a final place of punishment was needed for recidivists and other antisocial British subjects, such as Irish political prisoners. These...

Oceania People and Culture. Touristic Environment. A Book on Oceania People and Culture, tourism and the Environment. Due to colonial neglect and historical isolation, the Pacific Islands, home to the world's most diverse range of indigenous cultures, continue to sustain many ancestral life-ways....

Oceanic Cultural art and architecture. Information Tourism. A Book on Oceania. The history of Oceanic art falls into two major phases, corresponding to the periods before and after Western contact. This is due not so much to the changes ensuing from contact decisive as they have been as to the preservation...

10 illustrations. A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of his majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the west indies, in his majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent...