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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1935
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles has become the stuff of legend. But few realize that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise -- and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy, there's never been a true...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
236 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain William Bligh recounts his experiences in 1789 when his ship "Bounty" was taken over in a mutiny and he and a crew of eighteen men were set adrift in an open boat in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 253 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is a detailed history of the Pitcairn islanders from the original settlement through the opening years of the 21st century. The island's isolation is contrasted with the international attention garnered from its captivating history, making the society a one-of-a-kind historical curiosity"--Provided by publisher.
17) Bligh
Author
Publisher
Duckworth
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
xii, 420 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
528 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspective the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as players. Beginning in 1777, when Bligh, at twenty-two, first arrived in...
19) The Bounty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
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