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Book Review of Mutiny on Board Hms Bounty (Great Illustrated Classics)

Mutiny on Board Hms Bounty (Great Illustrated Classics)
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Book Description
Captain William Bligh's account of the fatal voyage of the Bounty, and his subsequent 3,600-mile trip to Timor in an open boat. Bligh was not the tyrant of legend--in fact, he may have been one of the most lenient commanders of a Pacific exploration ship of that period.