Mutiny on the Bounty; Men Against the Sea; Pitcairn's Island: The Bounty Trilogy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mutiny on the Bounty; Men Against the Sea; Pitcairn's Island: The Bounty Trilogy

ON the twenty-third of December, 1787, His Majesty's armed transport Bounty sailed from Portsmouth on as strange, event ful, and tragic a voyage as ever befell an English ship. Her errand was to proceed to the island of Tahiti (or Otaheite, as it was then called) in the Great South Sea, there to collect a cargo of young breadfruit trees for transportation to the West Indies, where, it was hoped, the trees would thrive and thus, eventually, provide an abundance of cheap food for the negro slaves of the English planters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.