Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas

Salmond, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520270568 ISBN 13: 9780520270565

Verlag: University of California, 2011

Book by Salmond Anne

Críticas:

"Gripping and definitive." -- Ronald Wright Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "A rich and riveting biography... Salmond has successfully brought to life the complex personality of William Bligh and his world." -- Elizabeth Salt Library Journal "A fine and measured biography ... a model of depth, style and scope." -- Alexander Rose Wall Street Journal "Bligh is presented here in as full a picture as anyone is ever going to be able to draw." -- Rob Hardy Columbus Dispatch "Salmond brings a fresh perspective to a well documented topic... Bligh is a book that will have wide appeal and a worthy addition to Salmond's award-winning repertoire." -- Maria Amoamo Journal Of The Polynesian Society "This readable book ... is likely to set the standard for thorough research, ethnographic insight and psychological discernment." -- Bernd Lambert Pacific Affairs

Reseña del editor:

In "Bligh", the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspective the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as players. Beginning in 1777, when Bligh, at twenty-two, first arrived in Tahiti with Captain Cook, Salmond charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages - and tells how they transformed lives on the islands as well as on board the ships and back in Europe. She sheds new insight into the mutiny aboard the Bounty - and on Bligh's remarkable 3,000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat - through revelations from the raw, unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh for the first time, as an important ethnographer adding to the paradoxical legacy of this famed seaman, and it captures more definitively than ever the excitement, drama, and terror of these events.