The Bounty from the Beach: Cross-cultural and Cross-disciplinary Essays
- ISBN-10
- 1760462446
- ISBN-13
- 9781760462444
- Category
- Bounty Mutiny, 1789
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- American National University Press
- Author
- Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega
Description
Intro; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Contextualising the Bounty in Pacific Maritime Culture; 2. Pitcairn before the Mutineers: Revisiting the Isolation of a Polynesian Island; 3. Reading the Bodies of the Bounty Mutineers; 4. Nordhoff and Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty: A Piece of Colonial Historical Fiction; 5. A Ship is Burning: Jack London's 'The Seed of McCoy' (Tales of the Pacific, 1911), or Sailing Away from Pitcairn; 6. Brando on the Bounty; 7. Bounty Relics: Trading in the Legacy of Myth and Mutiny; Bibliography
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