William Bligh's Log of HMS Providence 1791-1793
William Bligh
£650.00
- ISBN: 0904351017
- Complete edition: 500 copies
Contributors: The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Stephen Walters, David Bellamy OBE
Binding: 1/2 leather and buckram with gilt tooling and sprinkled page edges
Box: Buckram slipcase.
Extras: Five folding charts.
'I find that about two months after I left Otaheite in the Bounty, Christian returned with her to the very great astonishment of the Natives...' - from Bligh's Log of HMS Providence.
This edition contains a wealth of previously unpublished material, carrying a complete reproduction of Bligh's Log, in which he attempts to trace the course of the Bounty mutineers.
• Preface by the late Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
• A colour collotype reproduction of Sydney Parkinson's breadfruit watercolour.
• Introduction by Stephen Walters.
• A complete reproduction of John Ellis' book of 1775: A Description of the Mangostan and Breadfruits.
• Notes on the breadfruit plant by David Bellamy OBE.
This edition contains a wealth of previously unpublished material, carrying a complete reproduction of Bligh's Log, in which he attempts to trace the course of the Bounty mutineers.
• Preface by the late Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
• A colour collotype reproduction of Sydney Parkinson's breadfruit watercolour.
• Introduction by Stephen Walters.
• A complete reproduction of John Ellis' book of 1775: A Description of the Mangostan and Breadfruits.
• Notes on the breadfruit plant by David Bellamy OBE.
- Page size: 210mm x 340mm
- 950 pages