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MEN WITHOUT COUNTRY
A Tale of Mutiny, Murder, and Mystery in the South Seas
Harrison Christian is originally from New Zealand and is a direct descendent of Fletcher Christianthe infamous lead mutineer of the Bounty. Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas.
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain shrouded in mystery. Some settled in Tahiti only to face capture and court martial, others sailed on to form a secret colony on Pitcairn Island, the most remote inhabited island on earth, avoiding detection for twenty years. When an American captain stumbled across the island in 1808, only one of the Bounty mutineers was left alive, the rest largely murdered by their shipmates.
Men Without Country details the history that led Bounty to make its fateful journey and the lives of the men aboard. Those lives were dominated by a punishing regime of hard work and scarce rations, and deeply divided by the hierarchy of class. It is a tale of seafaring and exploration punctuated by moments of extreme violence?towards each other and the people of the South Pacific.
For the first time, Christian provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the whole story from the history of trade in the South Seas to Pitcairn Island, which provided the mutineers' salvation, and then became their grave.
Harrison Christian is a New Zealand journalist and writer. His reporting career has seen him travel extensively in the Pacific and beyond, covering such topics as rising sea levels in Arctic Alaska.
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain shrouded in mystery. Some settled in Tahiti only to face capture and court martial, others sailed on to form a secret colony on Pitcairn Island, the most remote inhabited island on earth, avoiding detection for twenty years. When an American captain stumbled across the island in 1808, only one of the Bounty mutineers was left alive, the rest largely murdered by their shipmates.
Men Without Country details the history that led Bounty to make its fateful journey and the lives of the men aboard. Those lives were dominated by a punishing regime of hard work and scarce rations, and deeply divided by the hierarchy of class. It is a tale of seafaring and exploration punctuated by moments of extreme violence?towards each other and the people of the South Pacific.
For the first time, Christian provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the whole story from the history of trade in the South Seas to Pitcairn Island, which provided the mutineers' salvation, and then became their grave.
Harrison Christian is a New Zealand journalist and writer. His reporting career has seen him travel extensively in the Pacific and beyond, covering such topics as rising sea levels in Arctic Alaska.
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Published 2021-07-01 by Ultimo Press (Hardie Grant) |