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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by Mike Dash

ISBN 0609807161 (0-609-80716-1)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr

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In 1629, the Dutch merchantman Batavia grounded on a desolate atoll near Western Australia. Of the 200 survivors, 115 were subsequently murdered, in coldest blood, by a group of the ship's sailors and their psychopathic leader, Jeronimus Corneliszoon. Batavia's Graveyard is Mike Dash's unnerving, measured account of the incident. The victims included children, babies, and pregnant women; the crimes took place over a period of several months. Though the killings make a substantial, chilling tale in themselves, Dash adroitly places the shocking spree in larger context with illuminating discussions of 17th century medical practices, religious heresy, global politics, and shipboard sociology and daily life. Additionally, he draws dozens of portraits of the participants in this ghastly drama, most fascinatingly that of Corneliszoon, who emerges as a grotesquely charismatic predecessor of the likes of Charles Manson and Ted Bundy. Batavia's Graveyard, a skillful melding of accessible scholarship and evenhanded narrative and of overview and telling detail, is a welcome achievement. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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  Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Bounty
by Richard Hough

ISBN 0140073663 (0-14-007366-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Bounty Mutiny
by William Bligh, Edward Christian

ISBN 0140439161 (0-14-043916-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty
by Caroline Alexander

ISBN 0142004693 (0-14-200469-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty . Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. This fresh perspective wonderfully revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christian's breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of history's great navigators; Christian on his restless exile; and the captured mutineers toward their day in court. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know today-of the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty . Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situations-the chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters. Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era. [via]
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A Brief History Of Mutiny
by Richard Woodman

ISBN 0786715677 (0-7867-1567-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub

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Perhaps even more than the waves and weather, sea officers of the past feared the ever-present risk of mutiny. Functioning as a microcosm of dissent in our society at large, the steep hierarchy and deep social divisions between the crew and their commanders, the misery and monotony of very hard work and little sleep, and the constant threat of death from shipwreck, disease, or the enemy often led to an anarchic breakdown of any semblance of stability or order at sea.

The notorious mutiny on the Bounty in 1787 has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood, yet Richard Woodman describes it here as a mere pup among mutinies. Despite the usual portrayal, Captain Bligh was neither tyrant nor sadistwhereas Pigot of the Hermione was both, and his crew was probably justified in throwing him overboard. Woodman brings a seamans perspective to this compelling history, which stretches from Magellans successful handling of an uprising that took place on his great voyage of discovery in 1519, to the sordid crimes that mutinies had become by the end of the Second World War.
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The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk

ISBN 0316955108 (0-316-95510-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic. [via]
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Captain Bligh and Mr Christian: The Men and the Mutiny
by Richard Alexander Hough

ISBN 1861761325 (1-86176-132-5)
Hardcover, Chatham

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Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian: The Men and the Mutiny
by Richard Hough

ISBN 1557502307 (1-55750-230-7)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr

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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books

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1984 Amaranth Press / Octopus Books; Treasury of World Masterpieces: The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination / The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / The Raven and Other Poems [via]
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Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe
by Gregory Gibson

ISBN 0316738670 (0-316-73867-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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In 1985 Greg Gibson was sent a handwritten journal discovered by a small time book dealer in rural Indiana. It turned out to be a young officer's account of the 1825 naval expedition dispatched to the Pacific with orders to apprehend the perpetrators of the Globe mutiny. The mutiny and its aftermath were notorious as the goriest crime in American maritime history; involving hatchet murders, stabbings, shootings and a shipboard lynching. The long-lost journal was the first eyewitness account of the fate of those mutineers, and of the innocent men left at the mercy of the tattooed islanders who adopted and enslaved them.
At the center of the mutiny was a young man raised in a staunch Nantucket Quaker family. As a boy Samuel Comstock's head was filled with the stories of daring naval exploits and sea-faring adventure. As he grew older, these fantasies took a darker turn. One year into a Pacific whaling voyage, Comstock brutally murdered the captain and his officers. He and three accomplices then forced the terrified crew (among them his fifteen year old brother) to sail to the Mulgrave Islands where he planned to kill everyone aboard, destroy the ship, subdue the natives and rule the island as its king. In the confusion that followed, six of the innocent crew stole the Globe and piloted her, in an epic shorthanded voyage, 7500 miles back to South America. There they told the world of the terrible events they had witnessed. The Navy sent out its expeditionary force and seventeen-year-old midshipman Augustus Strong penned the journal that would resurface 175 years later.
The story of the Globe mutiny is one of unending fascination. Dovetailing Gibson's riveting account of the mutiny is the history of the sperm oil industry, its Nantucket Quaker powerbrokers, the growth of American naval influence and how their combined agendas played out in the remote reaches of the Pacific. Above all, Demon of the Waters is, in the tradition of Nordhoff and Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty, a story of men and the sea.
Brilliantly conceived, gripping, horrific, and insightful, Demon of the Waters is destined to become a classic of sea adventure. [via]
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In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
by Joan Druett

ISBN 1565124359 (1-56512-435-9)
Softcover, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated

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LA Isla Del Tesoro / Treasure Island
by Lewis Stevenson

ISBN 9583007455 (958-30-0745-5)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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Las Aventuras De Arthur Gordon Pym
by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 9506201544 (950-620-154-4)
Softcover, Heliasta

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Arthur Gordon Pym, junto con su amigo Augusto, se embarca en el Grampus, un barco ballenero que tiene como destino los mares del Sur. Una serie de aventuras un motin, un naufragio, la sed y el hambre- cambia el rumbo de una historia que se transforma, subitamente, en un relato de ciencia ficcion. Las Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym, la obra mas extensa, discutida y enigmatica de Edgar Allan Poe, fue publicada en forma de libro en 1838, aunque sus primeros capitulos habian sido publicados en el Southern Literary Messenger en 1837. Considerada originalmente por la critica como una obra menor de Poe, las Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym es uno de los relatos mas populares del autor, el cual se destaca por las incognitas y sorpresas que presenta su trama. [via]
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The Mutiny of the Bounty
by Gavin Kennedy, John Barrow

ISBN 0879233435 (0-87923-343-5)
Hardcover, D. R. Godine

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Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty: Library Edition
by William Bligh

ISBN 1589762282 (1-58976-228-2)
Softcover, Narrative Pr

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Mutiny on the Bounty
by Charles Nordhoff, James N. Hall

ISBN 0316611689 (0-316-61168-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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Cherished as one of the most thrilling sea adventures ever recorded, Mutiny on the Bounty has sold millions of copies and enthralled generations of readers around the world in the seven decades since its initial publication. The novel reprises a true story-the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His Majesty's Ship Bounty in 1788-1789, which culminated in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh-and reaches peaks of narrative excitement that mark the book indelibly as a modern classic. [via]
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Mutiny on the Bounty
by William Bligh

ISBN 8854401234 (88-544-0123-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Entries from the diary of British Royal Navy officer and colonial governor William Bligh recount the infamous events that took place on the HMS Bounty in 1789. Despite his adventurous career under Captain James Cook and Horatio Nelson, British Royal Navy officer and colonial governor William Bligh (1754-1817) is now remembered for his harsh treatment of his crew that triggered their mutiny in 1789, an account that is told in Bligh's own words in this volume. The commander and 18 seamen were set adrift in an open boat and came ashore after sailing 3600 miles, a tale that continues to captivate readers even today. [via]
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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark S. Pannill

ISBN 1420925733 (1-4209-2573-3)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," the only full-length novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote, is the story of a boy, Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship. Along with Augustus, the captain's son, Arthur Gordon Pym avoids discover aboard the ship while witnessing a series of incredible events. Rich with symbolism and allegory, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" is an exciting gothic sea adventure that greatly influenced the genre of the maritime novel. [via]
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0945260237 (0-945260-23-7)
Hardcover, Choice Pub

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The Siege of Krishnapur
by J.G. Farrell

ISBN 159017092X (1-59017-092-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"The first sign of trouble at Krishnapur came with a mysterious distribution of chapatis, made of coarse flour and about the size and thickness of a biscuit; towards the end of February 1857, they swept the countryside like an epidemic."
Students of history will recognize 1857 as the year of the Sepoy rebellion in India--an uprising of native soldiers against the British, brought on by Hindu and Muslim recruits' belief that the rifle cartridges they were provided had been greased with pig or cow fat. This seminal event in Anglo-Indian relations provides the backdrop for J.G. Farrell's Booker Prize-winning exploration of race, culture, and class, The Siege of Krishnapur.
Like the mysteriously appearing chapatis, life in British India seems, on the surface, innocuous enough. Farrell introduces us gradually to a large cast of characters as he paints a vivid portrait of the Victorians' daily routines that are accompanied by heat, boredom, class consciousness, and the pursuit of genteel pastimes intended for cooler climates. Even the siege begins slowly, with disquieting news of massacres in cities far away. When Krishnapur itself is finally attacked, the Europeans withdraw inside the grounds of the Residency where very soon conditions begin to deteriorate: food and water run out, disease is rampant, people begin to go a little mad. Soon the very proper British are reduced to eating insects and consorting across class lines. Farrell's descriptions of life inside the Residency are simultaneously horrifying and blackly humorous. The siege, for example, is conducted under the avid eyes of the local populace, who clearly anticipate an enjoyable massacre and thus arrive every morning laden with picnic lunches (plainly visible to the starving Europeans). By turns witty and compassionate, The Siege of Krishnapur comprises the best of all fictional worlds: unforgettable characters, an epic adventure, and at its heart a cultural clash for the ages. Quite simply, this is a splendid novel. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 1416500294 (1-4165-0029-4)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Treasure Island
by Angela Wilkes, Sam Taplin, Peter Dennis

ISBN 0794504116 (0-7945-0411-6)
Softcover, Edc Pub

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64 pages with colorful photos dispersed throughout book. Great introduction to this classic. Age 8 years and up. [via]
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Treasure Island
by Lucy Corvino, Chris Tait

ISBN 1402713185 (1-4027-1318-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.

Pirates, buried treasure, and action aplenty--that's what's served up in this fine story, mates, and kids will eat it up. After Jim Hawkins finds the map to a mysterious treasure, he sets sail in search of the fortune. Little does he realize he's boarded a pirate ship, and that surprises and danger await him...including a meeting with the inforgettable Long John Silver.
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Treasure Island
by Scott McKowen

ISBN 1402714572 (1-4027-1457-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi, Ruth E. Murray

ISBN 1560545925 (1-56054-592-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Set in the 19th century, this is the story of a 13-year-old who is accused of murder, brought to trial and found guilty. The author tells of Charlotte's emancipation as she starts making decisions for herself. [via]
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