Duty and Mutiny on the High Seas
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving than the life at sea. ---Joseph Conrad Life on a ship is a world in miniature. Everything you know is there populated by a crew, officers and captain. To survive the storms, privat ion and wartime, the crew must follow the structure of a strictly control led environment. This can either degenerate into mutiny or great success . Here's a short list of books that show both sides of the coin. 1. The Mutiny On Board the H.M. Bounty, William Bligh (Signet Classic, 1961). First published in 1972, Captain Bligh 's account is t he most well known of mutinies. He uses the ship's log to present an objective account leaving the reader to judge what type of captain he really was. If nothing else, Bligh and his small crew of loyalists demonstrated an amazing account of seamanship to survive a 3,600 mile south Pacific voyage in the Bounty's long boat. Made...