Mutiny on the Bounty
By: John Boyne
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780385666350
Subjects: Cabin boys; Bounty Mutiny (1789) fast (OCoLC)fst00837141; Sea stories; Historical fiction; Naval History; Bounty Mutiny, 1789; Bounty (Ship); Mutiny; Fiction
Description: Fourteen-year-old John Turnstile is on his way to prison when he gets a surprise offer: his freedom if he will serve as replacement for the injured valet of a captain whose ship is about to sail on an important mission. The ship is the HMS "Bounty", the captain is William Bligh, and their destination is Tahiti. The story paints a very different portrait of Bligh and the mutinous Fletcher Christian.