The fate of William Bligh and his ship, the Bounty, is documented by numerous items in the collection. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty by William Bligh (1790), Bligh’s own account of the mutiny, is illustrated with plates and maps. Bligh presents his

story of the entire journey in A Voyage to the South Sea (1792). A later volume by Bligh, An Account of the Dangerous Voyage Performed by Captain Bligh, With a Part of the Crew of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty, in an Open Boat (1817), includes a report from the captain of the American ship which discovered the survivors of the Bounty mutiny on Pitcairn Island.

Other items of interest include the original manuscript of the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Hall, a first edition of Nordhoff and Hall’s Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), and Pitcairn’s Island by Nordhoff and Hall (1934).


Nordhoff and Hall’s Mutiny on the Bounty