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Originally published 1934 | 4.1/5 Goodreads Publication date 1934 Genre Historical drama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Men Against the Sea is the second installment in the trilogy by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. It is preceded by Mutiny on the "Bounty" and followed by Pitcairn's Island. The novel first appeared in serial form in The Saturday Evening Post (November 18, 1933 through December 9, 1933) hence the copyright date of 1933, and it was first printed in hardcover in January 1934 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Plot summary
Men Against the Sea follows the journey of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat by the mutineers of the Bounty. The story is told from the perspective of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon, who went into the ship's launch with Bligh. It begins after the main events described in the novel and then moves into a flashback, finishing at the starting point.