The Mutineers of the Bounty

Les Révoltés de la Bounty is a short story by the French writer Jules Verne. It was published in 1879 under the French title of this annex of the belt 18 of the Voyages extraordinaires The 500 million of the Begum ( original French title Les Cinq cents millions de la Begum ) in France.

Action

Former Collier ( coal carrier ) Bounty leaves the Royal Navy under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh in 1787 the British port of Portsmouth. Your task is to bring on the still uncharted South Sea Islands scions of the breadfruit tree. The aim of the British Government, it is this to plant on the West Indies. The shoots are taken on board during a five -month stay in Tahiti. On the other driving the Bounty will be taken in the South Seas of mutineers led by the first officer Fletcher Christian in fitting. Bligh is exposed with several followers in a sloop. However, he and his sloops crew succeeds, after 48 days on the open sea to reach the single, Bligh then known European base in Kupang on the 5800 km distant island of Timor. This trip the overloaded sloop under grueling conditions is still regarded as a nautical maximum output of William Bligh.

The journey of the mutineers with the Bounty, however, ends at the Pitcairn Island, where they settle.

Particularity

Unlike other narrators of the story of the mutiny on the Bounty is Jules Verne, the voyage of the sloop under the command of Bligh and its special nautical power in the foreground.