Men Against The Sea Author:Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall Second in the Bounty trilogy. The Bounty reached tahiti and completed the first part of her mission in idyllic surroundings. But on the voyage home, the mutineers struck and took over, somewhere in the vicinity of the Firendly Islands. — There, on the morning of april 28, 1789, Captain Bigh and eighteen loyal members of the Bounty's crew were s... more »et adrift in a small open launch. This is the story of their incredible voyage of thirty-six hundred miles across an uncharted ocean. It is one of the most stirring accounts in the histor of man against the sea.« less