Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Bligh Beginning in 1777, when William Bligh, at twenty-two, first arrived in Tahiti with Captain Cook, this title charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages - and tells how they transformed lives on the islands as well as on board the ships and back in Europe.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 01 November 2011
- Format: Hardback 528 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Geographical Discovery & Exploration | European History | British & Irish History | Australasian & Pacific History | History Of Other Lands | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
- ISBN 13: 9780520270565 ISBN 10: 0520270568
- Sales rank: 122,096
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In "Bligh", the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspective the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as players. Beginning in 1777, when Bligh, at twenty-two, first arrived in Tahiti with Captain Cook, Salmond charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages - and tells how they transformed lives on the islands as well as on board the ships and back in Europe. She sheds new insight into the mutiny aboard the Bounty - and on Bligh's remarkable 3,000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat - through revelations from the raw, unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh for the first time, as an important ethnographer adding to the paradoxical legacy of this famed seaman, and it captures more definitively than ever the excitement, drama, and terror of these events.
