Schreiber, Roy E.
The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh

This biography tries to understand how Bligh's notable career was possible despite the mutinies on the 'Bounty' and another ship an a military rebellion against him as governor. William Bligh is best remembered for the 1789 mutiny on the "Bounty". In 1797 mutineers took over his ship, "Director." A little more than ten years later, when he was the governor of the British colony in Australia, the New South Wales Corps rebelled and kept Bligh locked in Government House for over a year. Yet when the man died in 1817 at age 63, he was William Bligh, esquire, Fellow of the Royal Society and Vice-Admiral of the White in the British Navy. How was it possible for someone who was in serious difficulty so often to rise as far as he did? 257 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; vol. 108/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint