Author: Maxton Donald A. Maxton

In 1787 the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after leaving Tahiti, Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a success …

Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora–dispatched to track down the mutineers and return the …

This is the first complete publication of a rare collection of letters and poems written from 1790 to 1792–many of which have never appeared in print–telling the true story of Peter Heywood, a youn …