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A musical Mutiny! played at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End for sixteen months from 1985. [224] It was co-written by David Essex based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty and starred Essex as Christian. Morecambe and Wise produced a spoof "play what Ernie wrote" called Monty on the Bonty, starring Arthur Lowe as Bligh. [225]
Admiralty Plan of the Bounty Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty Plan of the lower decks of the Bounty Plan and section of the Bounty Armed Transport showing the manner of fitting and stowing the pots for receiving the bread-fruit plants, from William Bligh's 1792 account of the voyage and mutiny, entitled A Voyage to the South Sea, available from Project Gutenberg.
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 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.
Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. In 1787, Christian was appointed master's mate on Bounty, tasked with transporting breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the ...
Mutineers of the Bounty (French: Les Révoltés de la Bounty [1]), translated in English by English writer W. H. G. Kingston, is a short story by Jules Verne. [2] The story is based on British documents about the Mutiny on the Bounty and was published in 1879 together with the novel The Begum's Fortune (Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum), as a part of the series Les Voyages Extraordinaires ...
The Mutiny of the Bounty and Other Narratives public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Log of the Bounty by Lieut. Wm Bligh, 5 April 1789 – 13 March 1790, original logbook covering the mutiny and carried by Bligh on his subsequent boat journey to Timor. Works by William Bligh at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about William Bligh at the Internet ...
An American edition followed under the title A Description of Pitcairn's island and its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers (New York: Harper, 1832). The many later reissues include a 1936 Oxford World's Classics edition.
During the Mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, Ellison was standing his watch as the ship's wheelsman, which gave him a vantage point to view the personal confrontation between Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian at the heart of the mutiny. Ellison described himself as continuing to obey the captain's orders to "clap the helm down".