Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface.
This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of
H.M.S. Pandora-dispatched to track down the mutineers and return
them to England for court-martial-and the Matavy, a schooner built
by the mutineers in Tahiti. This is the first book to include
eyewitness accounts from five men who endured these voyages.
Presented in overlapping, chronological order are the first
publication of a narrative by a member of Matavy's crew, who
vividly describes a desperate struggle to survive with meager
provisions among islands filled with hostile natives. A previously
unpublished poem by an anonymous sailor on Pandora recounts the
ship's sinking, the survivors' tortuous journey to the Dutch East
Indies, and their return to England. The captain's unedited
statement on the loss of Pandora is included and appendices
summarize the Bounty and Pandora courts-martial and the later
history of each narrator.
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