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Chasing the Bounty : The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy, Paperback / softback Book

Chasing the Bounty : The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy Paperback / softback

Edited by Donald A. Maxton

Paperback / softback

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Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface.

This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S.

Pandora--dispatched to track down the mutineers and return them to England for court-martial--and the Matavy, a schooner built by the mutineers in Tahiti. This is the first book to include eyewitness accounts from five men who endured these voyages.

Presented in overlapping, chronological order are the first publication of a narrative by a member of Matavy's crew, who vividly describes a desperate struggle to survive with meager provisions among islands filled with hostile natives.

A previously unpublished poem by an anonymous sailor on Pandora recounts the ship's sinking, the survivors' tortuous journey to the Dutch East Indies, and their return to England.

The captain's unedited statement on the loss of Pandora is included and appendices summarize the Bounty and Pandora courts-martial and the later history of each narrator.

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