The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh by Schreiber, Roy E.

The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820415161)

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The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh by Schreiber, Roy E.

The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh

$43.95
The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh by Schreiber, Roy E.

The Fortunate Adversities of William Bligh

$43.95
Format: Hardcover
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William Bligh is best remembered for the 1789 mutiny on the Bounty. He lived to repeat the experience. In 1797 mutineers took over his ship, Director. A little more than ten years later, when he was the governor of the British colony in Australia, the New South Wales Corps rebelled and kept Bligh locked in Government House for over a year. Yet when the man died in 1817 at age 63, he was William Bligh, esquire, Fellow of the Royal Society and Vice-Admiral of the White in the British Navy. How was it possible for someone who was in serious difficulty so often to rise as far as he did? If ever there was a person who learned to profit from adversity, it was William Bligh.

Author: Roy E. Schreiber
ISBN-10: 0820415162
ISBN-13: 9780820415161
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1991
Pages: 165
Format: Hardcover
By Roy E. Schreiber
By Roy E. Schreiber
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The Author: Roy E. Schreiber received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. from the University of London. He is the author of two books and a play and is currently Professor of History at Indiana University at South Bend. His honors include election to the Royal Historical Society and Research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research in London and the University of Sydney in Australia. For the past twelve years, he has been co-editor of the North American Conference in British Studies Biography Series. Sailing has been an interest since he was a teenager and he has skippered assorted sail boats in the U.S., Great Britain, the West Indies and Australia.

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