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Auteur(s) : Salmond, Anne (1945-....)
Titre(s) : Bligh [Texte imprimé] : William Bligh in the South Seas / Anne Salmond
Publication : Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011
Description matérielle : 528 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm
Comprend : The paradise of the world ; The death of Captain Cook ; The 'Resolution's' master
; Island of the blest ; The old boy tips a 'Heiva' ; 'Bounty' ; The finest sea
boat ; Captain Cook's 'son' ; Bligh/Parai ; Mr Bligh's bad luck ; These happy
islanders ; Huzza for Otaheiti ; I have been run down by my own dogs ; An island
fort ; Murder and mayhem ; Pandora's box ; Wreck of 'Pandora' ; The mutineers'
babies ; 'Providence' ; The modern Cyprus ; Belle of the isle ; Paradise lost
; The awful day of trial ; A floating forest ; Death of 'the Don'.
Note(s) : "First published by Penguin Group (NZ), 2011"--T.p. verso. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [474]-478) and index
"In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through
a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the
West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspective
the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life in a riveting narrative that for
the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as players. Beginning in 1777, when
Bligh, at twenty-two, first arrived in Tahiti with Captain Cook, Salmond charts Bligh's
three Pacific voyages--and tells how they transformed lives on the islands as well
as on board the ships and back in Europe. She sheds new insight into the mutiny aboard
the Bounty--and on Bligh's remarkable 3,000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small
boat--through revelations from the raw, unguarded letters between him and his wife
Betsy. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh for the first time, as an important
ethnographer adding to the paradoxical legacy of this famed seaman, and it captures
more definitively than ever the excitement, drama, and terror of these events" --Publisher's
website
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : William Bligh in the South Seas
Sujet(s) : Bligh, William (1754-1817) -- Voyages -- Pacifique (région)
Mutinerie de la Bounty (1789)
Découverte et exploration britanniques -- Pacifique (région)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520270565 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0520270568 (cloth) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42628672n
Notice n° :
FRBNF42628672
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