Editing Mutiny on the Bounty (novel) (section)

==Plot introduction==
The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member [[Peter Heywood]].<ref>Simon Winchester.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11566148/The-true-story-of-the-Mutiny-on-the-Bounty.html The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty].[[The Daily Telegraph]].December 7, 2015.</ref> Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the ''Bounty'' after the mutiny. He subsequently returns to Tahiti and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a [[court-martial]].  He and several other members of the crew are eventually acquitted.