PublishedHodder & Stoughton, September 2011 |
ISBN9780733628467 |
FormatSoftcover, 400 pages |
Dimensions23.1cm × 15.2cm × 3.1cm |
From ship's boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper. Meet a 24-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his Captain and mentor Cook; a 34-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic 47-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a 36-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand scientific voyage around the world.
And all this before he was forty.
