A Voyage to the South Seas, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship Bounty Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh, Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said…

xix, [1], 150 pp. Introduction by Alan Villiers, illustrations from drawings by Geoffrey C. Ingleton, color frontispiece portrait from a painting by John Smart. William Bligh's account of the fatal voyage of the bounty, and his subsequent 3,600-mile trip to Timor in an open boat. Bligh was not the tyrant of legend in fact, he may have been one of the most lenient commanders of a Pacific exploration ship of that period.