01566 2200217 4500 9780733628467 3570 F 317044 eng AUS Bligh LIV Master mariner Rob Mundle Sydney Little, Brown book group limited 2010 368 p. 24 cm The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors. From ship's boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper. Meet a 24-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his Captain and mentor Cook; a 34-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic 47-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a 36-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand scientific voyage around the world. And all this before he was forty. Bligh William Biographie Australie Navigation Histoire 18e siècle 994 Mundle Rob FR MO MEDOUEST MEDOUEST 90590284 diff 994 MUN 2012-12-10 00:00:00 0