Further reading

The following additional books and articles were of particular assistance in researching and referencing various aspects of the Bligh story:

Alexander, Caroline. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, London, HarperCollins, 2003.

Brunton, Paul (Ed.). Awake, Bold Bligh: William Bligh’s Letters Describing the Mutiny on HMS Bounty. Sydney, Allen and Unwin and the New South Wales State Public Library, 1989.

Dening, Greg. Mr Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty. Melbourne, CUP, 1993.

Guttridge, Leonard F. Mutiny: A History of Naval Insurrections, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1992.

Kennedy, Gavin. Bligh, London, Duckworth, 1978.

Mackaness, George. The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, RN, FRS. Two Vols. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1931.

McKinney, Sam. Bligh!: The Whole Story of the Mutiny Aboard H.M.S. Bounty, Horsdal & Schubart, 1999.

Nordhoff, Charles, and James Norman Hall. The Bounty Trilogy, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

Rutter, Owen. Turbulent Journey: A Life of William Bligh, Vice-Admiral of the Blue. London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936.

Scott, Ernest. The Life of Matthew Flinders, Angus and Robertson, 2001.