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Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty

By: William Bligh
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
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In 1787, William Bligh, commander of the Bounty, sailed under Captain Cook on a voyage to Tahiti to collect plants of the breadfruit tree, with a view to acclimatizing the species to the West Indies. During their six-month stay on the island, his men became completely demoralized, and on the return voyage mutinied. Yet a resentful crew, coupled with ravaging storms and ruthless savages, proved to be merely stages leading up to the anxiety-charged ordeal to come. Bligh, along with 18 men, was cast adrift in an open boat only 23 feet long, with a small stock of provisions, and without a chart.

His narrative, deeply personal yet objective, documents the voyage and Bligh’s relationships to his men, and thereby exposes the oft debated question of what manner of man he really was.

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If you want captain Bligh's side of the story, I highly recommend this audiobook. Very well read. thanks!

Greatly written and read

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an amazing survival story which took me into another world, which was partly thanks to the excellent narration. the whole thing felt so authentic - which is not to say it was an accurate description of the events. if it is accurate, those men were very lucky to have had a leader who never made a bad decision and was always right about everything.

A glimpse into another world

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I love this book. The guy really loves breadfruit tree, can't get enough of them. I don't think this will spoil the book, but he tries to take 70 of them home. They just taste like bread though. Crazy! Recommended

Fantastic story

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This contemporary account of the voyage of Captain lie, after he was set free by Fletcher Christian, and the other mutineers showed remarkable skill and leadership. And sadly he has become equally remembered for his brutality regularly shown to his seamen that he’s an overall abilities have been obscured to some extent. An enjoyable book which informs greatly about matters not described in movies and TV programmes of an entertainment nature.

The navigation skill of Captain Bligh

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In all my years, although I knew of the Mutiny on the Bounty, I'd never actually read about it, watched a film or read the book.

The account was very interesting, I enjoyed the level of detail all the way through and it was without doubt, an incredible feat of survival.

I generally like the narrators way of talking, some times, he seemed to hesitate over names, dates, bearings etc but that just gave the impression of a ship captain checking his logbook. It actually worked well.

However this audiobook is badly let down by the editing. I counted three or four times where the audio either faded away or just cut off in the middle of a sentence. I lost count of the number of times the narrator stopped talking, there was a silence and then he started again, in a different tone of voice, only to repeat the previous sentence. I can only imagine this was when the recording session was paused and then continued. A simple re-listen to the source material and some editing would have resolved this.

I appreciate this is an old recording but I'd hope these sort of mistakes would be resolved.

An enjoyable listen but let down by the editing

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A great real world story though occasionally sounding like the shipping forecast!
Let down by bad edits which could have been dealt with by only listening through once.. The audio for me also missed the first word of new paragraphs too though this could be an audible issue.

amazing true story

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Amazing that we have such a text of a first hand account of the Mutiny on the Bounty

Incredible first hand insight

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