'The Mutiny of the Bounty and Other Narratives ' Summary

The book starts slowly, mostly reading like a captain's log, but eventually gets interesting. Chapter 13 is where the action really starts, and one gets a sense of the horrible conditions over those 40 days at sea, with burning sun, torrential downpour, near starvation, and a host of health maladies that made life miserable for Bligh and his men. It was hard to put down!

Imagine being so hungry that you literally eat birds raw, bones and all. Imagine becoming so weak that you can barely move, and just when land is in sight, you realize you can't land because the locals will kill you. It was a harrowing journey and definitely engaging.

Bligh would eventually become the governor of New South Wales, but was deposed during the Rum Rebellion of 1808. He returned to England where he lived out the remainder of his life.