Mutiny on the BountyMutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

(**alert spoiler**) In 1787, lieutenant Bligh, at the service of her majesty, and previously an officer of captain Cook, went towards Tahiti, for getting the breadfruit, in order to plant it in the Caribean sea, and get food for slaves in plantations. He tried to turn Horn Cape, but he couldn’t and went towards the Indian Ocean, and finally, they arrived to the island. All this is told by John Jacob Turnstile, the young captain’s servant. In Tahiti, the sailors fall in love with the native women, well, I don’t know if they fall in love, or just they prefer the beaches, love making, taking the sun… And when they are returning home, an officer called Chirstian, and many other men, mutiny themselves against captain Bligh, and he, and other 18 men, are abandoned in the middle of the ocean, at their own fate. 42 days later, nearly dead, they arrive at Timor, and from there, they will travel to England. It is based on a real story, and, by the way, although all the protagonists of the mutiny actually died violently in the following five years since their arrival, they left behind 23 children. Their descendents, continue living nowadays in the island of Pitcarin, one thousand miles away from any other inhabited place all over the world. They speak a very strange English, mixed with native words. Near 500 pages that you can read without any problem, because is entertaining, and in case you have no time, you can watch “Rebelión a bordo”, with Marlon Brando. Or many other films, one of them very recently filmed.

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