Bligh

Author: Rob Mundle
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1783378417
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Beyond the Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from “a master of the maritime narrative” (The Sydney Morning Herald). The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors. From ship’s boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper. Meet a twenty-four-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his captain and mentor, Cook; a thirty-four-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic forty-seven-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a thirty-six-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand voyage to Tahiti and back. This book goes beyond the character we’ve seen in movies—into the real life of a complex and remarkable seaman.

Bligh, Master Mariner

Author: Robert Mundle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733632068
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description

The Master Mariner

Author: Nicholas Monsarrat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armada, 1588
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
Condemned to stay on earth till his guilt is purged for an act of unspeakable cowardice in the battle against the Spanish Armada, British seaman Matthew Lawe fights as a buccaneer, searches for the Northwest Passage, and sails with Captain Cook.

Captain Bligh and Mr Christian

Author: Richard Hough
Publisher: Chatham Publishing
ISBN: 9781861761323
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
The Bounty set out in 1788 to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies as a cheap source of food for slaves. But the combination of the tough discipline of Bligh and the attractions of life in the South Sea Islands drove Fletcher Christian and part of the crew to mutiny, and Bligh along with those loyal to him were set adrift in the ship's launch. Their remarkable 3,600-mile, open-boat voyage to Timor is one of the great feats of navigation, while the story of the mutineers' discovery of the uninhabited island of Pitcairn and their attempt to fashion a community away from the pursuing ships of the Royal Navy is as tense as it is horrific. This drama of mutiny, courage, remarkable voyages, human deceit and treachery, first published in 1972, provides an account of this episode of maritime history.

Flinders

Author: Rob Mundle
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733630006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map. Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline. From the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his beloved wife; and the comfort he got from his loyal cat, Trim; to his tragic death at just forty. This is a gripping adventure biography that details the life of Flinders, a true hero whose name is forever woven into the fabric of Australian history.

Captain Bligh

Author: Gavin Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
Biografi over William Bligh (1754-1817), som især er kendt fra mytteriet på Bounty, men som også var med Nelson under Københavns bombardement i 1801

Bligh in the Wake of the Bounty

Author: Maurice Bligh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781702502764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
Bligh in the wake of the Bounty is a true story taken from the archives about a man who died two centuries ago. He was one of the finest navigators and explorers the British Royal Navy ever had; a captain of 15 ships, who never lost one. He was multi-talented and everything 20th Century Hollywood's movie-makers didn't want him to be. He was admiral they called 'Captain Bligh'. It was during a voyage to and from Tahiti in the exotic South Seas when His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty 'disappeared'. Without the captain, no-one would have known why. For half-a-century Maurice Bligh, a great-great-great-grandson, has followed in the admiral's footsteps on land, and in his ancestor's wake at sea on a quest to discover the facts of a classic sea-saga to 'put the record straight'. Be prepared for some controversial historic revelations and surprises!

Bligh!

Author: Sam McKinney
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The special focus of this book, unlike others about Bligh, is that it is taken from the actual log of Captain Bligh, as well as from the logs of his boatswain, the surgeon aboard the Pandora, who searched for the missing mutineers, and the captain of the Blossom, who found them.

Birth, Marriage and Death Records

Author: David Annal
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1848845723
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in understanding the documentation. They recount the history of parish registers from their origin in Tudor times, they look at how civil registration was organized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explain how the system in England and Wales differs from those in Scotland and Ireland. The record-keeping practiced by nonconformist and foreign churches, in communities overseas and in the military is also explained, as are the systems of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Other useful sources of evidence for births, marriages and deaths are explored and, of course, the authors assess the online sites that researchers can turn to for help in this crucial area of family history research.

The Barefoot Navigator

Author: Jack Lagan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472944798
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
'Barefoot navigation: 5,000 years in the making.' Barefoot Navigator introducesus to a unique take on navigation – using the skills of the ancients and technology-free techniques, we learn how to navigate using the sun, sea, wind and stars, and even the flight patterns of ocean birds. The first part of this absorbing book recounts a colourful history of seafarers and their navigation techniques. How did the Polynesians manage to populate an area of ocean larger than North America simply by analysing clouds,currents and wind direction? How did the Vikings routinely travel on the notorious stretches of water between Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia? The second part shows how to use these ancient techniques to supplement today's navigational hardware, especially in survival situations. Fascinating history, useful advice, enjoyable writing, and different to every other navigation reference out there, this second edition has been beautifully packaged in a hardback format, with new illustrations and thoroughly revised text.