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xii, 259 pages : 23 cm "At dawn on 27 April 1789 Fletcher Christian, master's mate on HMS Bounty, took a coconut to quench his thirst from the supply on the quarterdeck ... He thought this an 'act of no consequence', as insignificant as the flutter of a butterfly's wings. But consequences followed: mutiny; Captain Bligh's navigation 3000 miles across the Pacific in an open boat in violent weather, without maps or supplies and with starving men; the colonising of Pitcairn Island; the shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef of HMS Pandora sent to capture the mutineers; the seduction of the narrator in a storm at sea in a rudderless yacht." "Hazardous and extraordinary sea voyages drive this story of quest and adventure, courage and villainy. The cast includes the Bounty mutineers, the all-Indian crew of the Tundra Princess - a 17,000-tonne container ship - Lady Myre, an eccentric lesbian aristocrat, Pitcairn Island sex offenders and the narrator's ancient mother. The action moves through time and place from eighteenth-century Tahiti to modern-day Pitcairn, from Knightsbridge to Tauranga, from Mangareva to Tubuai." "Inspired by chaos theory, Whitbread Prizewinner Diana Souhami brings wit

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Author

Diana Souhami, Diana Souhami

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson : [distributor] Littlehampton Book Services Ltd

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297847878

Category

reference

Subjects

History, Travel, Humanities

Rating

3.28 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14