Peter Aldhamland

If this story was fiction it would be classified as sheer fantasy. BUT …. this true story is written on actual researched fact. It is a story that I couldn't stop reading, each page produced amazing disclosures of amazing events in recent history. It tells of the harsh conditions faced by the exploring sea-faring men of Britain and of the even harder conditions enforced on them by driven officers of the British navy. It tells of the arrival and the prolonged stay in the utopian island of Tahiti and of the love affaires between the ships crew and the exotic and sensual women of that island. It tells of the departure from that island and the hate generated between Fletcher Christian and his captain William Bligh. It tells of death and murder and ill-treatment. It tells of mutiny at sea - the most serious of crimes at sea - punishable by death! It tells of an amazing voyage of thousands of miles in a small boat - navigated and steered by a most amazing seaman. And finally it tells of the search for a remote and unknown island home and the creation of a new race of people. I will read this book again and again - thankyou so much Peter Fitzsimmons.