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    Title
    Bligh
    Subtitle
    William Bligh in the South Seas
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Anne Salmond
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 528
    Width: 159 mm
    Height: 238 mm
    Thickness: 44 mm
    Weight: 828 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780520270565
    ISBN 10: 0520270568
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: HIS010000
    BIC subject category: HBLL
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1QSP
    BIC time period qualifier: 3JF
    Dewey: 990
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T5.2
    BIC subject category: HBJQ
    BISAC category code: HIS053000
    Dewey: B
    BISAC category code: HIS051000
    BISAC category code: BIO006000
    BISAC category code: HIS015000
    Dewey: 910.92
    Illustrations note
    Illustrations (some col.)
    Publisher
    University of California Press
    Imprint name
    University of California Press
    Publication date
    01 November 2011
    Publication City/Country
    Berkerley/US
    Main description
    "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" --Publisher's website.
    Review quote
    "Gripping and definitive."--Times Literary Supplement (Tls) "A rich and riveting biography... Salmond has successfully brought to life the complex personality of William Bligh and his world."--Library Journal "A fine and measured biography ... a model of depth, style and scope."--Wall Street Journal "Bligh is presented here in as full a picture as anyone is ever going to be able to draw." --Columbus Dispatch "Salmond brings a fresh perspective to a well documented topic... Bligh is a book that will have wide appeal and a worthy addition to Salmond's award-winning repertoire."--Journal of the Polynesian Society
    Biographical note
    Anne Salmond is Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Among her books are Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and European 1642-1772 and The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas.