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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Preston, Diana (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Paradise in chains [Texte imprimé] : the Bounty Mutiny and the founding of Australia / Diana Preston
Publication : New York : Bloomsbury, 2017
Description matérielle : xii, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index
"Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea
in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian
penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's
survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles has become the stuff of legend.
But few realize that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey
in that era of British exploration and colonization. Indeed, 9 convicts from the Australian
penal colony, led by Mary Bryant, also traveled 3,250 miles across the open ocean
and some uncharted seas to land at the same port Bligh had reached only months before.
In this meticulously researched dual narrative of survival, acclaimed historian Diana
Preston provides the background and context to explain the thrilling open-boat voyages
each party survived and the Pacific Island nations each encountered on their journey
to safety. Through this deep-dive, readers come to understand the Pacific Islands
as they were and as they were perceived, and how these seemingly utopian lands became
a place where mutineers, convicts, and eventually the natives themselves, were chained"--Provided
by publisher
Sujet(s) : Bligh, William (1754-1817)
Mutinerie de la Bounty (1789)
Australie -- 1788-1900
Indice(s) Dewey :
994.02 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Australie - 1788-1851
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781632866103. - ISBN 1632866102. - ISBN 9781632866127 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46591284p
Notice n° :
FRBNF46591284
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : No other gods but love ; The truest picture of Arcadia ; What could you learn,
Sir? what can savages tell, but what they themselves have seen? ; There are very
few inhabitants ; Villains and whores ; The finest harbour in the world ; The floating
greenhouse ; They musts be watched like children ; Here nature is reversed ; Knights
of Tahiti ; The people are ripe for anything ; Run down by my own dogs ; The calamities
of Captain Bligh ; Hurrah for a bellyful, and news of our friends ; To brave every
danger ; We must have starved ; Mr. Christian was beloved ; The strange conbination
of circumstances ; This amazon ; All arrogance and insult ; No one but Captain
Bligh will siut ; Why does the black man sharpen axe?
