''Mutineers of the Bounty'' (french: Les Révoltés de la Bounty), translated in

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by English writer W. H. G. Kingston, is a

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. Michael Pembrok
The Bounty review: How Peter FitzSimons and Alan Frost see the mutiny

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.7 December 2018. The story is based on British documents about the Mutiny on the ''Bounty'' and was published in 1879 together with the novel '' The Begum's Fortune'' (''Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum''), as a part of the series '' Les Voyages Extraordinaires'' (''The Extraordinary Voyages''). Unlike many authors covering the topic, Verne concentrates on the deposed captain of the ''Bounty'',

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. After mutineers forced Bligh into the ''Bountys 23-foot launch on 28 April 1789, he led loyal crew members on a 6,710 kilometer journey to safety, reaching

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47 days later. The original text was written by Gabriel Marcel (1843–1909), a geographer from the National Library of France. Jules Verne’s work was proofreading. Verne supposedly bought the rights to the text for 300

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, but it had not been verified.

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External links

Original illustrations
by S. Drée

available a
Jules Verne Collection
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