Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas
Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as key players.
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| Interest Age |
Young Adults |
| Reading Age |
Young Adults |
| NBS Text |
Biography: Historical, Political & Military |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
528 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 152mm
Height: 230mm
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| Weight |
Not specified - defaults to 1,000g |
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| Dewey Code |
910.92 |
| Catalogue Code |
215420 |
Description of this Book
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as key players. From 1777, Salmond charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages - with Captain James Cook in the Resolution, on board the Bounty, and as commander of the Providence. Salmond offers new insights into the mutiny aboard the Bounty - and on Bligh's extraordinary 3000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat - through new revelations from unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. We learn of their passionate relationship, and her unstinting loyalty throughout the trials of his turbulent career and his fight to clear his name. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh as an important ethnographer, adding to the paradoxical legacy of the famed seaman. For the first time, we hear how Bligh and his men were changed by their experiences in the South Seas, and how in turn they changed that island world forever.
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Awards & Reviews
| Awards |
Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Book Awards: General Non-Fiction 2012.
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Author's Bio
Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. One of New Zealand's most prominent anthropologists and historians, Professor Salmond is the author of Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings, Eruera: Teachings of a Maori Elder and Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman. Among her other award-winning works are Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and European, 1642-1772, Between Worlds: Early Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas and Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti. She received the CBE for services to literature and the Maori people in 1988 and was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history in 1995. In 2009, she was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) for her excellence in scientific research.
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