The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh

by Roy E Schreiber

Overview

William Bligh is best known as the cause of Mutiny On The Bounty. He was also the victim of two other mutinies. Yet when he died he was a Vice-Admiral of the British Navy. How was that possible? If ever a person learned to profit from adversity, it was William Bligh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595137619
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/2000
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	776,894
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

The Author: Roy E. Schreiber received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. from the University of London. He is the author of two books and a play and is currently Professor of History at Indiana University at South Bend. His honors include election to the Royal Historical Society and Research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research in London and the University of Sydney in Australia. For the past twelve years, he has been co-editor of the North American Conference in British Studies Biography Series. Sailing has been an interest since he was a teenager and he has skippered assorted sail boats in the U.S., Great Britain, the West Indies and Australia.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	VII
	Introduction	XI
	Beginnings	1
	The Bounty	21
	Double Return of a Tarnished Hero	57
	Scientific Captain to Warrior	91
	The End of the Warrior Years	113
	The Path to New South Wales	135
	Troublesome Colony	157
	Disaster	177
	Admiral's Flag	205
	Brief Glossary	235
	Abbreviations	237
	List of Sources Cited	239