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Mutiny and Aftermath - James Morrison's Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Island of Tahiti (Paperback)
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Mutiny and Aftermath - James Morrison's Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Island of Tahiti (Paperback)
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The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events
of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book publishes a full
and absorbing narrative of the events by one of the participants,
the boatswain's mate James Morrison, who tells the story of the
mounting tensions over the course of the voyage out to Tahiti, the
fascinating encounter with Polynesian culture there, and the
shocking drama of the event itself. In the aftermath, Morrison was
among those who tried to make a new life on Tahiti. In doing so, he
gained a deeper understanding of Polynesian culture than any
European who went on to write about the people of the island and
their way of life before it was changed forever by Christianity and
colonial contact. Morrison was not a professional scientist but a
keen observer with a lively sympathy for Islanders. This is the
most insightful and wide-ranging of early European accounts of
Tahitian life. Mutiny and Aftermath is the first scholarly edition
of this classic of Pacific history and anthropology. It is based
directly on a close study of Morrison's original manuscript, one of
the treasures of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia. The
editors assess and explain Morrison's observations of Islander
culture and social relations, both on Tubuai in the Austral Islands
and on Tahiti itself. The book fully identifies the Tahitian people
and places that Morrison refers to and makes this remarkable text
accessible for the first time to all those interested in an
extraordinary chapter of early Pacific history.
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