The Bounty The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

New York Times Bestselling Author Just before sunrise on the morning of April 18, 1789, in the far reaches of the south pacific, Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and three other men, armed with cutlasses, bayonets and a musket, apprehended Lieutenant William Bligh and placed him and eighteen officers and crewmen in a small boat. This mutiny on board His Majesty's armed transport Bounty impelled every man on a fateful course -- bligh and his loyalists on a historic boat voyage, Christian and his followers on their restless exile.

Caroline Alexander is the author of the New York Times bestseller about Ernest Shackleton, The Endurance, and four previous books. Her articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and National Geographic, among other publications.