Bligh
Master Mariner
Published on 19. January 2013
240 pages
978-1-78337-841-8 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond the
Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from "a master of the maritime narrative" (
The Sydney Morning Herald).
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors.
From ship's boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper. Meet a twenty-four-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his captain and mentor, Cook; a thirty-four-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic forty-seven-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a thirty-six-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand voyage to Tahiti and back.
This book goes beyond the character we've seen in movies-into the real life of a complex and remarkable seaman.
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors.
From ship's boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper. Meet a twenty-four-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his captain and mentor, Cook; a thirty-four-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic forty-seven-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a thirty-six-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand voyage to Tahiti and back.
This book goes beyond the character we've seen in movies-into the real life of a complex and remarkable seaman.
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Rob Mundle is a bestselling author, journalist and competitive yachtsman whose family heritage is with the sea, dating back to his great-great-grandfather who was the master of square riggers. He is written ten books and has an intimate knowledge of the waters Bligh explored and traversed, having sailed the Solent, the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the northern waters of the Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait, along the eastern archipelago of Indonesia, the West Indies, Fiji, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Cape Town, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Hebrides and Sacandinavia-all in Bligh's wake.
Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Prologue - Tofua, 1789
- PART I MASTER BLIGH
- ONE - Plymouth, 1754
- TWO - South Pacific, 1776
- THREE - Dogger Bank, 1781
- FOUR - Spithead, 1787
- PART II COMMANDER BLIGH
- FIVE - Cape Horn, 1788
- SIX - Tahiti, 1788
- SEVEN - Friendly Isles, 1789
- EIGHT - Pacific Ocean, 1789
- NINE - New Holland, 1789
- TEN - Great Barrier Reef, 1789
- PART III CAPTAIN BLIGH
- ELEVEN - Timor, 1789
- TWELVE - London, 1790
- THIRTEEN - South Pacific, 1791
- FOURTEEN - Tahiti, 1791
- FIFTEEN - Torres Strait, 1792
- SIXTEEN - North Sea, 1795
- SEVENTEEN - Baltic Sea, 1801
- EIGHTEEN - England, 1802
- Epilogue - Sydney, 1806
- Postscript
- Glossary
- Bligh's ships
- A note on sources
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
