Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780385611664
ISBN: 0385611668
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: May 05, 2008
Publisher: Doubleday
Sales Rank: 28762
Studio: Doubleday

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Rating: - One of the best books of 2008!
Truly fascinating, with a fresh new angle on a well-known story -- yet, you'll keep turning the pages wondering what happens next? It's part coming-of-age story, part adventure story, never gets dull and so well-written. Mr. Boyne has written a masterpiece!

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Rating: - A very new look at Christian and Bligh

The mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, who seized the breadfruit-laden Bounty after leaving Tahiti in April 1789, and set the captain, William Bligh, adrift in a boat, ranks up there with the Titanic as one of the iconic stories of the sea. The combination of sadism, violent confrontation, a sexy Polynesian paradise, and an epic small boat voyage has an enduringly irresistible appeal.

Ever since March 1790, when Bligh arrived in London to report what he called a "close-planned ... Read More

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Rating: - Surprisingly good
Told by John Jacob Turnstile, a young lad with a history of problems, who one day gets caught for stealing a pocket watch from a gentleman. Turnstile get the opportunity to either spend 1 year in jail or join the crew of the Bounty, a ship that is sailing to the island of Tahiti to collect Breadfruit. On board Turnstile is the servant to Captain Bligh, a man who shown to have a bad temperment at times, but is one of the fairest Captains of the times. The crew face trials and tribulations as they make ... Read More

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