Nordhoff, Charles

Fictionalized account in three parts of the Mutiny on the Bounty and the lives of Captain Bligh and mutineer Fletcher Christian following the revolt.

A reprint of an 1875 study of American communitarian societies of the nineteenth century, such as the Separatists of Zoar and the Shakers, discussing the history of each community, its guiding philosophy, social habits and cutoms, business and administration, and details of everyday life.

Based on the famous mutiny carried out by the crew of the "Bounty," a British war vessel, in 1787.