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Trama e riassunto di La storia avventurosa dell'ammutinamento e della presa piratesca della H.M.S. Bounty
- 7 min di lettura
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Eighteen starving men in a twenty-three-foot boat cross the open Pacific, and a young midshipman faces the gallows.
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La storia avventurosa dell'ammutinamento e della presa piratesca della H.M.S. Bounty in breve
Riassunto: 7 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 6 h 15 min4 h 55 min fast, 7 h 25 min slow
- Durata
- 89.200 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Impegnativo long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1831by Sir John Barrow
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La storia avventurosa dell'ammutinamento e della presa piratesca della H.M.S. Bounty in short
Barrow's book follows a single thread from welcome to wreck to refuge. It begins with Tahiti, a generous island that had learned about Europeans through cannon fire. The Bounty comes for breadfruit and stays twenty-three weeks.
What La storia avventurosa dell'ammutinamento e della presa piratesca della H.M.S. Bounty is about
A navy captain is tied up in his own cabin before sunrise and forced into a crowded launch, far from any friendly shore. What follows is one of the best documented sea stories ever written, and it ends on a hidden island where the children of mutineers sing evening hymns.
This is The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, by Sir John Barrow of the Admiralty. He sets Bligh's printed account beside Morrison's journal, the court-martial minutes and a family's letters. You get Tahiti, the boat voyage, a wreck, a trial and Pitcairn.
A chi è rivolto. You will love this if you enjoy true sea adventure, courtroom drama, and the puzzle of who was really to blame. It suits anyone curious about Tahiti, Bligh, or Pitcairn.
The 10 key ideas
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Tahiti met Europeans with cannon, then kindness
The book opens on an island, not a ship. Captain Wallis reached Otaheite first, in the Dolphin. The meeting was a battle. Hundreds of canoes swarmed the ship and hurled sling stones, and the ship's guns drove them off.
Yet peace came quickly. A tall woman the sailors took for a queen had the sick captain carried to her great house, where girls rubbed his aching limbs. When the ship sailed she wept on the beach.
They valued iron above gold, so sailors stripped the ships of nails. Barrow also names theft, infant killing and human sacrifice.
The island that received the Bounty was real, generous and already changing under European contact.
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A gardening mission sent the Bounty to Tahiti
The Bounty sailed for a practical purpose.
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Twenty-three weeks of welcome weakened discipline
At Tahiti, Bligh was dressed in island cloth by women he called ladies.
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At dawn on April 28 Christian seized the ship
Shortly before sunrise on April 28, 1789, near Tofoa, Bligh was asleep when Fletcher Christian came into his cabin.
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Barrow weighs who was to blame for the mutiny
Bligh claimed a long conspiracy, and the public believed him.
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Eighteen men crossed the Pacific in a small boat
After the launch drifted away, Bligh tried to find food at Tofoa.
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Bligh's care for survivors contrasted with his cruelty
Barrow admires what Bligh did in the boat.
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The Pandora hunted mutineers and was wrecked
The Admiralty sent the frigate Pandora under Captain Edward Edwards to find the mutineers.
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Heywood's trial turned on a laugh and a letter
The prisoners reached Spithead in June 1792, and the court-martial opened aboard the Duke on September 12 under Lord Hood.
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Pitcairn turned a bloody refuge into a pious village
For nearly nineteen years, Christian's refuge remained unknown.
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Questions about La storia avventurosa dell'ammutinamento e della presa piratesca della H.M.S. Bounty
What is the Bounty mutiny about?
In 1789 the crew of H.M.S. Bounty, sent to carry breadfruit plants from Tahiti, seized the ship under Fletcher Christian and set Captain Bligh adrift in an open boat. The book follows the voyage, the hunt, the trial and Pitcairn.
Who was Fletcher Christian and why did he mutiny?
Christian was a master's mate whom Bligh made acting lieutenant. Barrow argues he acted on a sudden impulse after repeated abuse, especially a quarrel over missing coconuts, and not from a long plot or a longing for Tahiti.
Is the Bounty story true and when was this book written?
Yes, the events are historical, from 1787 to the 1830s. Barrow wrote this account in the early 1830s from Bligh's narrative, Morrison's journal, trial records, family letters and visitors' reports from Pitcairn.
What happened to the Bounty mutineers?
Barrow tracks them all. Some were captured by the Pandora, three were hanged and others were pardoned or freed. Eight went with Christian to Pitcairn, where most died by violence, and John Adams lived until 1829.
Why is Peter Heywood important in this book?
Heywood was a teenage midshipman who stayed aboard the Bounty and was tried for mutiny. His letters and his sister Nessy's show the human cost, and his pardon makes him the book's most moving figure.
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Barrow, John. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-eventful-history-of-the-mutiny-and-piratical-seizure-of-h-m-s-bounty.
Barrow, J. (2026). The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H.M.S. Bounty. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-eventful-history-of-the-mutiny-and-piratical-seizure-of-h-m-s-bounty (Original work published 1831)
Barrow, John. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-eventful-history-of-the-mutiny-and-piratical-seizure-of-h-m-s-bounty.
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