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5/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Publication date 1932 Publisher Little, Brown and Company | 4/5 Goodreads Country United States Series The Bounty Trilogy Originally published 1932 Followed by Men Against the Sea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Adaptations Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) Genres Novel, History, Historical novel Similar James Norman Hall books, Mutiny on the Bounty books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, 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. It was the first of what became The Bounty Trilogy, which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island.
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Plot introduction
The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood. Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny. He subsequently returns to Tahiti, and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial. He and several other members of the crew are eventually acquitted.
Characters in Mutiny on the Bounty
Film, TV and theatrical adaptations
A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s. It was written by and starred David Essex.
Other
An earlier novel, Les Révoltés de la Bounty (The Mutineers of the Bounty), was published by Jules Verne in 1879.