Paradise in chains : the Bounty Mutiny and the founding of Australia

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Label

Paradise in chains : the Bounty Mutiny and the founding of Australia

Title remainder

the Bounty Mutiny and the founding of Australia

Statement of responsibility

Diana Preston

Creator

• truePreston, Diana, 1952-

Author

• truePreston, Diana, 1952-

Subject

• Bligh, William, 1754-1817 -- Travel
• trueBounty Mutiny, 1789
• trueEscapes
• Escapes -- History -- 18th century
• trueIslands of the Pacific -- Description and travel
• trueIslands of the Pacific -- History -- 18th century
• trueOcean travel
• trueOcean travel -- History -- 18th century
• truePrisoners
• Prisoners -- Australia | Botany Bay (N.S.W.) -- History -- 18th century
• Prisoners -- New South Wales | Botany Bay -- History -- 18th century
• Prisoners -- Travel | History -- 18th century
• Prisoners, Transportation of -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• trueSea survival
• Survival at sea -- History -- 18th century
• trueTransportation of prisoners
• trueTravel writing
• trueAustralia -- History -- 1788-1851

Genre

• Travel writing

Language

eng

Summary

"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 realise that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British exploration and colonisation. Indeed, 9 convicts from the Australian penal colony, led by Mary Bryant, also travelled 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

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

996.18

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography