Contents

Author's Note

Prologue – Tofua, 1789

PART I • MASTER BLIGH

ONE – Plymouth, 1754

TWO – South Pacific, 1776

THREE – Dogger Bank, 1781

FOUR – Spithead, 1787

PART II • COMMANDER BLIGH

FIVE – Cape Horn, 1788

SIX – Tahiti, 1788

SEVEN – Friendly Isles, 1789

EIGHT – Pacific Ocean, 1789

NINE – New Holland, 1789

TEN – Great Barrier Reef, 1789

PART III • CAPTAIN BLIGH

ELEVEN – Timor, 1789

TWELVE – London, 1790

THIRTEEN – South Pacific, 1791

FOURTEEN – Tahiti, 1791

FIFTEEN – Torres Strait, 1792

SIXTEEN – North Sea, 1795

SEVENTEEN – Baltic Sea, 1801

EIGHTEEN – England, 1802

Epilogue – Sydney, 1806

Postscript

Glossary

Bligh's ships

A note on sources

Further reading

Acknowledgements