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
The Bounty (1984 film) The music score was composed by Vangelis and the cinematography designed by Arthur Ibbetson. The film is set as flashbacks from the court martial at Greenwich of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) for the loss of "HMS Bounty" to mutineers led by his friend Fletcher Christian (Mel Gibson), during its expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean. Bligh sets out from Great Britain in December 1787, electing to sail the "Bounty" west round the tip of South America in an attempt to use the expedition to fulfill an ambition to circumnavigate the globe. The