Mutiny on the Bounty: 400 Headwords, True Stories

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to hisneck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.Oxford University Press Staff is the author of 'Mutiny on the Bounty: 400 Headwords, True Stories', published 2008 under ISBN 9780194789110 and ISBN 019478911X.