William Bligh, 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., London, 1790–94.Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Viking Penguin, 2003, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 3-X.The Bounty review: How Peter FitzSimons and Alan Frost see the mutiny. The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. It was written by and starred David Essex.Īn earlier novel, Les Révoltés de la Bounty ( The Mutineers of the Bounty), was published by Jules Verne in 1879. A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s.William Bligh – Lieutenant and commander of the Bountyįilm, TV and theatrical adaptations.Roger Byam – main protagonist, loosely based on 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.He and several other members of the crew are eventually acquitted.Ĭharacters in Mutiny on the Bounty He subsequently returns to Tahiti, and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial. Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny. The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood.
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