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A narrative of the mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty : and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies

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  • Description

    The first edition of Bligh's account of the mutiny, and his subsequent voyage in the ship's launch with eighteen loyal crewmen. 'In their small boat Bligh and his companions made a remarkable journey of more than three and a half thousand miles from Tofoa to Timor in six weeks over largely uncharted waters.

    What is not so well known is that in the course of this hazardous journey Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of New Holland as he passed along it - an extraordinary feat of seamanship ... [An] interesting addition to any library of Australian books, not only for the direct Australian interest of Bligh's coastal discoveries while navigating in the open boat, but also because of Bligh's later dramatic association with New South Wales as governor' (Wantrup).

  • Place
    Dublin, Ireland
  • Other Id

    G926.B68 BLI 1790 (Library of Congress Call Number)

    35494 (Cat ID)

    63253 (DBTextworks system ID)

    28323 (Presto content ID)

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