Mutiny on the Bounty (novel)
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Author | Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | The Bounty Trilogy |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | October 1932 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Followed by | Men Against the Sea |
Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall,[1] based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became The Bounty Trilogy, which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island.
Plot introduction[]
The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood. [2] 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.
Characters in Mutiny on the Bounty[]
- 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 aquital
- William Bligh – Lieutenant and commander of the Bounty
- Fletcher Christian – eventual mutineer
Film, TV and theatrical adaptations[]
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s. It was written by and starred David Essex.
Other[]
An earlier novel, Les Révoltés de la Bounty (The Mutineers of the Bounty), was published by Jules Verne in 1879.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Daniel Brotzel.Collaboration.Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. September 23, 2019.
- ^ Simon Winchester.The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.The Daily Telegraph.December 7, 2015.
- ^ Michael Pembroke.The Bounty review: How Peter FitzSimons and Alan Frost see the mutiny. The Sydney Morning Herald. December 7, 2018.
Further reading[]
- Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Viking Penguin, 2003, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 0-670-03133-X
- 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.
- Karl Ernst Alwyn Lorbach, 'Conspiracy on the Bounty: Bligh's Convenient Mutiny', printed University of Queensland, 2012, hardcover/Kindle/ePub, 366 pages, ISBN 978-0-9806914-1-2.
External links[]
- Mutiny on the Bounty at Faded Page (Canada)
- Hussey, John (July 2006). "History - Hollywood Style". geocities.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Commentary on the novel and how it influenced the film(s) and popular perception of the events; comparison between three of the films.
- Nordhoff, Charles; Hall, James Norman (2008) [1932]. Mutiny on the Bounty. Project Gutenberg Australia. OCLC 665035113.
- 1930s historical novel stubs
- 1932 American novels
- American novels adapted into films
- Collaborative novels
- Little, Brown and Company books
- Novels about HMS Bounty
- Novels set in Tahiti
- Pitcairn Islands stubs