The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV Bounty - and the Fate of Fletcher Christian

Glynn Christian

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Pen & Sword History
28 June 2021

History; Maritime history

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY - and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.

By combining unprecedented research into Fletcher Christian and his fate with deep knowledge of Bounty's Polynesian women, Glynn Christian presents a fresh and comprehensive telling of a powerful maritime adventure that still captivates after 230 years.

Of over 3000 books and major articles on the mutiny, or the five feature films starring such as Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson, none has told the true story as until 1982, no author knew the real Fletcher Christian, or could understand his relationship with William Bligh, his mentor-turned-nemesis. Glynn Christian's extraordinary research into Bligh, Christian and Bounty included every deposit of documents worldwide and a sailing expedition to Pitcairn Island.

This book details the cramped dark conditions on the ship and how Bligh bravely commanded it at Cape Horn, saving it and the crew. Yet he was unable to keep discipline because he didn't punish enough, instead relying on his brutal tongue. Forced to remain in Tahiti for 23 weeks, Bligh struggled to retain order when Bounty sailed.

Glynn Christian reveals how this affected Fletcher Christian mentally, explaining his out-of-character mutiny. Then Christian showed revolutionary social conscience, using democracy and uniforms on Bounty to maintain leadership, including through the little-known settlement of Fort George on Tubuai.

After this, he and Bounty disappeared for 18 years. Bounty's story becomes that of Pitcairn Island, of revolutionary black women who protected their children with the blood of their fathers and continued Fletcher's ideals to become the first women in the world permanently to have the vote and guarantee education for girls.

AUTHOR: Best known in Britain as an entertaining and innovative TV chef, New Zealand born Glynn Christian is also an acclaimed food journalist, lecturer, public speaker and the author of over 25 books mainly about food and cookery. Since 1982 he's made over 1000 live broadcasts for BBC-TV including Breakfast Time and Pebble Mill and on radio he was a regular guest of Woman's Hour. His UK journalistic career includes writing weekly for The Sunday Telegraph for four years for which he was nominated for Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year, Elle (5 years) and magazines such as OK, House and Gardens, Gardens Illustrated.

By: Glynn Christian
Imprint: Pen & Sword History
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399014182
ISBN 10: 1399014188
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 28 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Glynn Christian is the first biographer of Fletcher Christian and of Mauatua his Tahitian consort, his great-great-great-great grandparents. As well as this major academic contribution to Bounty literature, he has written an historical-fiction account from Mauatua's view Mrs Christian BOUNTY Mutineer. Well-known as a distinguished food writer and pioneering TV-chef, Glynn is honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild of Fine Foods and his book REAL FLAVOURS - the handbook of gourmet & deli ingredients was voted Best Food Guide at the Cordon Bleu World Food Media awards. He continues to write and lives in Battersea, London.