Editing Mutiny on the Bounty (novel)

{{short description|1932 Book by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall}}
{{For|the event described in this book|Mutiny on the Bounty}}
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| name         = Mutiny on the Bounty
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| image        = MutinyOnTheBounty.jpg
| caption      = First edition dustcover
| author       = [[Charles Nordhoff]] and [[James Norman Hall]]
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| country      = United States
| language     = English
| series       = ''The Bounty Trilogy'' 
| genre        = Historical novel
| publisher    = [[Little, Brown and Company]]
| release_date = October 1932
| media_type   = Print (hardback & paperback)
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| followed_by  = [[Men Against the Sea]]
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'''''Mutiny on the Bounty''''' is a 1932 novel by [[Charles Nordhoff]] and [[James Norman Hall]],<ref>Daniel Brotzel.[https://www.sfwa.org/2019/09/23/collaboration/ Collaboration].[[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]]. September 23, 2019.</ref> based on the [[Mutiny on the Bounty|mutiny]] against Lieutenant [[William Bligh]], commanding officer of the [[HMS Bounty|''Bounty'']] in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became ''The Bounty Trilogy'', which continues with ''[[Men Against the Sea]]'' (1933), and concludes with ''[[Pitcairn's Island (novel)|Pitcairn's Island]]'' (1934).

==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.

==Characters in ''Mutiny on the Bounty''==
*Roger Byam – main protagonist, loosely based on the life of midshipman [[Peter Heywood]]; but with differences in the book it is claimed that Byam's only living relative was his mother who died of shock after William Bligh had accused her son of being an active mutineer; in fact, Heywood had several siblings; his mother survived his court-martial- although his sister Nessy Heywood did die a year after his acquittal
*[[William Bligh]] – Lieutenant and commander of the ''Bounty''
*[[Fletcher Christian]] – eventual mutineer

==Film, TV and theatrical adaptations==
*''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' (1935)
*''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' (1962)
*A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s. It was written by and starred [[David Essex]].

==Other==
An earlier work, ''Les Révoltés de la Bounty'' (''[[The Mutineers of the Bounty]]''), was published by [[Jules Verne]] in 1879.<ref>Michael Pembroke.[https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-bounty-review-how-peter-fitzsimons-and-alan-frost-see-the-mutiny-20181206-h18tp1.html The Bounty review: How Peter FitzSimons and Alan Frost see the mutiny]. ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]''. December 7, 2018.</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Novels}}
*[[1932 in literature]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Caroline Alexander, ''The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty'', Viking Penguin,  2003, hardcover, 512 pages, {{ISBN|0-670-03133-X}}
*William Bligh, ''A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East-Indies.'', London, 1790–94.
*Karl Ernst Alwyn Lorbach, 'Conspiracy on the Bounty: Bligh's Convenient Mutiny', printed University of Queensland, 2012, hardcover/Kindle/ePub, 366 pages, {{ISBN|978-0-9806914-1-2}}.

==External links==
* {{FadedPage|id=20160546|name=Mutiny on the Bounty}}
*{{cite web |last=Hussey |first=John |title=History - Hollywood Style |website=geocities.com |date=July 2006 |url=http://geocities.com/mustavapint/history.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027135107/http://geocities.com/mustavapint/history.htm |archive-date=2009-10-27 |url-status=dead}} Commentary on the novel and how it influenced the film(s) and popular perception of the events; comparison between three of the films.
*{{cite book |last=Nordhoff |first=Charles |last2=Hall |first2=James Norman |title=Mutiny on the Bounty |orig-year=1932 |publisher=Project Gutenberg Australia |year=2008 |oclc=665035113 |url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800401h.html}}

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