In Bligh’s Hand by Jennifer Gall, National Library of Australia, $34.95
William Bligh’s water-stained pocket notebook, kept by the sea captain following the mutiny on The Bounty, when he was cast adrift with 18 crew in a 7-metre open boat, is one of our most important historical documents.
For years the Bligh family retained the notebook, but it was bought at auction in London in 1976 by the National Library of Australia for $73,000.
This fascinating, beautifully illustrated book features extracts from that notebook, as well as other accounts of the mutiny and subsequent events which show that even with his loyalist crew, a difficult and temperamental Bligh constantly battled fear of new rebellion.
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