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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became The Bounty Trilogy, which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island. Plot introduction The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood. Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny. He subsequently returns to Tahiti and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial. He and several other members of the crew are eventually acquitted. Characters in Mutiny on the Bounty Roger Byam – main protagonist, loosely based on the life of midshipman Peter Heywood; but with differences in the book it is claimed that Byam's only living relative was his mother who died of shock after William Bligh had accused her son of being an active mutineer; in fact, Heywood had several siblings; his mother survived his court-martial- although his sister Nessy Heywood did die a year after his acquittal William Bligh – Lieutenant and commander of the Bounty Fletcher Christian – eventual mutineer Film, TV and theatrical adaptations Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) The Bounty (1984) A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s. It was written by and starred David Essex.

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“Tho the Ship was an excellent Sea Boat, it was as much as she could do to live in this tremendous sea where the Elements seem to wage Continual War.”
— James Morrison, Bosun’s Mate, describing the rough seas around Cape Horn (March 1788); Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti (1792), p. 7 (original in the Mitchell Library)
“It is said that by the express command of His Majesty two new sloops of war are to be instantly fitted to go in pursuit of the pirates who have taken possession of the Bounty. An experienced officer will be appointed to superintend the little command, and the sloops will steer a direct course to Tahiti where, it is conjectured, the mutinous crew have established their rendezvous.”
— The London Chronicle (1 April 1791)
“It was in those violent Tornadoes of temper when he lost himself, yet, when all, in his opinion, went right, could a man be more placid and interesting ...? Once or twice indeed I felt the unbridled licence of his power of speech, yet never without soon receiving something like an emollient plaister to heal the wound.”
— George Tobin, who accompanied Bligh in HMS Providence (1791–3); reported in George Mackaness, Fresh Light on Bligh (Dubbo: Review Publications, 1976), p. 33
“Fiercely beside thy cot the mutineer Stands, and proclaims the reign of rage and fear. Thy limbs are bound, the bayonet at thy breast; The hands, which trembled at thy voice, arrest; Dragged o’er the deck, no more at thy command The obedient helm shall veer, the sail expand.”
— Lord Byron, The Island (1823)
“But Christian, of a higher order, stood Like an extinct volcano in his mood; Silent, and sad, and savage, – with the trace Of passion reeking from his clouded face.”
— Lord Byron, The Island (1823)
“There never was a mutiny of the Bounty. Rather there was a revolt of one man against another, Christian against Bligh ...”
— Glynn Christian, Fragile Paradise (London: Book Club Associates, 1983), p. 14

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Notable quotes

“Tho the Ship was an excellent Sea Boat, it was as much as she could do to live in this tremendous sea where the Elements seem to wage Continual War.”
— James Morrison, Bosun’s Mate, describing the rough seas around Cape Horn (March 1788); Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti (1792), p. 7 (original in the Mitchell Library)
“It is said that by the express command of His Majesty two new sloops of war are to be instantly fitted to go in pursuit of the pirates who have taken possession of the Bounty. An experienced officer will be appointed to superintend the little command, and the sloops will steer a direct course to Tahiti where, it is conjectured, the mutinous crew have established their rendezvous.”
— The London Chronicle (1 April 1791)
“It was in those violent Tornadoes of temper when he lost himself, yet, when all, in his opinion, went right, could a man be more placid and interesting ...? Once or twice indeed I felt the unbridled licence of his power of speech, yet never without soon receiving something like an emollient plaister to heal the wound.”
— George Tobin, who accompanied Bligh in HMS Providence (1791–3); reported in George Mackaness, Fresh Light on Bligh (Dubbo: Review Publications, 1976), p. 33
“Fiercely beside thy cot the mutineer Stands, and proclaims the reign of rage and fear. Thy limbs are bound, the bayonet at thy breast; The hands, which trembled at thy voice, arrest; Dragged o’er the deck, no more at thy command The obedient helm shall veer, the sail expand.”
— Lord Byron, The Island (1823)
“But Christian, of a higher order, stood Like an extinct volcano in his mood; Silent, and sad, and savage, – with the trace Of passion reeking from his clouded face.”
— Lord Byron, The Island (1823)
“There never was a mutiny of the Bounty. Rather there was a revolt of one man against another, Christian against Bligh ...”
— Glynn Christian, Fragile Paradise (London: Book Club Associates, 1983), p. 14

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