William Bligh

A Voyage to the South Sea, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies

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Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1790 and 1792, the two works reissued here together tell the story of seafaring history's most infamous mutiny.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1054g
• ISBN-13: 9781108057714
• ISBN-10: 1108057713
• Artikelnr.: 37662534

Inhaltsangabe

1. Plan of the expedition
2. Departure from England
3. Passage towards the Cape of Good Hope, and search after Tristan da Cunha
4. Passage towards Van Diemen's Land
5. Rocky islands discovered
6. Account of an English ship lately sailed from Otaheite
7. A theft committed
8. Expedition to Tettaha after a heifer
9. A walk into the country, bread-fruit plants collected
10. The ship's cable cut in the night
11. Arrival of an Arreoy woman from Tethuroa
12. At the island Huaheine
13. A mutiny in the ship
14. Proceed in the launch to the island Tofoa
15. Passage towards New Holland
16. Progress to the northward, along the coast of New Holland
17. Passage from New Holland to the island Timor
18. At Coupang
19. From Timor to Batavia
20. Occurrences at Batavia, and passage thence to England.