num_pages: 368
description: Pirates and savage South Sea Islanders are nothing compared to the greatest of all threats.October 1789, New South Wales : Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest . She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France…From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Passage to Mutiny
titlecomplete: Passage to Mutiny (Richard Bolitho, #9)
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Naval Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 1439
series: Richard Bolitho
publisher: Arrow