Author: Kennedy, Gavin (Ed. and introduced by) Sir John Barrow's Original Account:
Title: The Mutiny of The Bounty.
Description: Boston, David R Godine, 1980 1st in U.S., hard cover green cloth bds, almost VG, a little scuffing to spine ends and corner tips, unclipped dust jacket, Good-, creasing and wear to spine ends and corners, scuffing to leading upper flap hinge, faint marking in places, contents clean and tight, with many colour, b/w illustrations including maps, letters, drawings, engravings, portraits, charts, etc...pp208. Kennedy has added "a lengthy and fascinating introduction drawing on knowledge accumulated over the last 150 years... his captions are packed with additional information about the people, places, and events mentioned in Barrow's narrative." "The story has been told many times. Yet of all its chroniclers, none was better placed or more objective than Sir John Barrow, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty. In 1831, his classic history of the Bounty mutiny was published. Under the fine editorial hand of Gavin Kennedy, the expert on eighteenth-century naval history, that text is the focus of this book."

Keywords: mutiny bounty Sir John Barrow history Captain Mayhew Folger Topaz Pitcairn HMS bounty William Bligh Pacific Ocean trail navy naval history HMS Pandora Fletcher Christian Edward John Adams letters 0879233435


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