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Has history been wrong for 200 years Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty its characters causes and aftermath Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scotts Scott Free Productions

More than two centuries after Masters Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling Caroline Alexander shatters the centuriesold myths surrounding this story She brilliantly shows how in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism pride and power and the assassination of a brave mans honor at the dawn of the Romantic age