The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty Barrow critically evaluates. It was first published in 1831 by John Murray as the 25th volume in their "Family Library" series. An American edition followed under the title "A Description of Pitcairn's island and its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers" (New York: Harper, 1832). The many later reissues include a 1936 Oxford World's Classics edition. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences (1831) by
Mutiny on the Bounty of a visiting British ship that the story of Cook and Bligh founding a settlement in Aitutaki was a fabrication, and that Cook had been long dead. Christian worried that their reaction might turn violent, and did not stay long. Of the 16 men who had voted to settle in Tahiti, he allowed 15 ashore; Joseph Coleman was detained on the ship, as Christian required his skills as an armourer. That evening, Christian inveigled aboard "Bounty" a party of Tahitians, mainly women, for a social gathering. With the festivities under way, he cut the anchor rope and "Bounty" sailed away