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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty Author: William Bligh Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 08-31-12 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1787, William Bligh, commander of the Bounty, sailed under Captain Cook on a voyage to Tahiti to collect plants of the breadfruit tree, with a view to acclimatizing the species to the West Indies. During their six-month stay on the island, his men became completely demoralized, and on the return voyage mutinied. Yet a resentful crew, coupled with ravaging storms and ruthless savages, proved to be merely stages leading up to the anxiety-charged ordeal to come. Bligh, along with 18 men, was cast adrift in an open boat only 23 feet long, with a small stock of provisions, and without a chart. His narrative, deeply personal yet o