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Charles Bernard Nordhoff

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“Mutiny on the Bounty”

  • Crew members of the HMS Bounty, including Clark Gable (left) as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton (right) as Captain Bligh, in the 1935 film version of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty.
    In Mutiny on the Bounty

    …the Bounty, romantic novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, published in 1932. The vivid narrative is based on an actual mutiny, that against Capt. William Bligh of the HMS Bounty in 1789. Related by Roger Byam, a former midshipman and linguist aboard the vessel, the novel describes how…

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