Description:

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.

About the Author

Tim Vicary is an experienced teacher and writer. He has published two novels, The Blood Upon the Rose and Cat and Mouse. He lives and works in England. Jennifer Bassett is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, for which she has written the original stories One-Way Ticket and The President's Murderer. She is series co-advisor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection.