Mutiny on the Bounty (fiction)

Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of a novel and several films based on the Mutiny on the Bounty, the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of HMAV Bounty in 1789.

Novel

The 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual 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.

Related Topics:
1932 - Charles Nordhoff - James Norman Hall - Peter Heywood - Court-martial

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A first Novel Les Révoltés de la Bounty was published by Jules Verne in 1879.

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