Tuesday 18 November 2014

The Mutiny on The Bounty

As a chil, I remember being horrified by the film, Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard ("I love you Laura. I will love you always until the end of my life"; infinitely more preferable! ) which inevitably, despite its historical inaccuracy, was a favourite of my blood-thirsty brothers. In later years, attempting to broaden my knowledge of the ill-fated mission, I began to read "The Bounty Trilogy" by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall but didn't get beyond page 56. But, irrespective of that, I was delighted to visit recently the site of Captain Bligh's London house



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