Bookworm_The mutiny of the Bounty

Author: [British] William Bligh, translated by Wang Hailong
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Two hundred years ago, life at sea was very difficult. People had to eat hard bread and spoiled meat; they had to work day and night, often in cold and wet conditions, hungry and freezing; they could not see land for months; they often encountered dangerous storms, frequent accidents; some ships never returned. In 1787, the "HMS Bounty" left England, sailing around half the globe to the South Pacific island of Tahiti. The captain of the Bounty was William Bligh, and the first mate was Fletcher Christian. The Bounty was not a happy place, Bligh had a harsh personality, and his officers and crew did not like him. They were both angry and afraid—worried about spending even longer at sea. It would take a year to return to England and spend a year with Captain Bligh. They began to secretly discuss why they didn’t just stay in Tahiti? There were blue skies and friendly people. Why did we need a captain? Why not let Captain Bligh take the lifeboat back to England? But the punishment for mutiny was death.