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Mutiny on the Bounty
novel by Hall and Nordhoff
Mutiny on the Bounty, romantic novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, published in 1932. The vivid narrative is based on an actual mutiny, that against Capt. William Bligh of the HMS Bounty in 1789. Related by Roger Byam, a former midshipman and linguist aboard the vessel, the novel describes how Fletcher Christian and 15 others revolted against the petty, tyrannical Bligh, setting him and a number of loyal men adrift in a small craft in the South Seas.
Nordhoff wrote the Polynesian chapters of the novel, Hall the English, although each assisted the other. They collaborated on two sequels, Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn’s Island (1934), which addressed the fate of the Bounty crew.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.
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