Year: 2003 Author: Caroline Alexander Performer: Simon Prebble Publisher: Books on Tape Type: audiobook Audio codec: MP3 Audio bitrate: 64 Description: "What caused the Mutiny on the Bounty ? " Alexander asks. The Seductions of Thaiti , Bligh"s harshtongue -- perhaps. But more compellingly , a night of drinking and a proud man's pride, a low moment on one gray dawn , a momentary and fatal slip in a gentleman's code of discipline an then the ruch of consequences to be lived out for a lifetime. This sounds almost like Conrad writing , and indeed it would have taken Conrad to give us a psychologically satisfactory Christian or Bligh. A sea mist hangs over this age old tale. Alexander dispels it , to the reader's fascination. But when all the facts are told and the fates of the cast are duly choronicled, the sea mist settles in again , as impenetrable and yet more interesting than it has ever been .
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The Bounty : The true Story of the Mutiny
Author: Caroline Alexander
Performer: Simon Prebble
Publisher: Books on Tape
Type: audiobook
Audio codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 64
Description: "What caused the Mutiny on the Bounty ? " Alexander asks.
The Seductions of Thaiti , Bligh"s harshtongue -- perhaps.
But more compellingly , a night of drinking and a proud man's pride, a low moment on one gray dawn , a momentary and fatal slip in a gentleman's code of discipline an then the ruch of consequences to be lived out for a lifetime.
This sounds almost like Conrad writing , and indeed it would have taken Conrad to give us a psychologically satisfactory Christian or Bligh.
A sea mist hangs over this age old tale.
Alexander dispels it , to the reader's fascination.
But when all the facts are told and the fates of the cast are duly choronicled, the sea mist settles in again , as impenetrable and yet more interesting than it has ever been .
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