Governor Bligh and the Short Man: Penguin Special

Some seventeen years after the mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh sets sail for New South Wales as Governor-elect of the fledgling colony. He is accompanied by his daughter Mary, the narrator of this extraordinary shipboard tale. A cultured young Englishwoman, Mary is entirely unprepared for the voyage – the great emptiness of the ocean, the unfamiliar rituals, the terrifying storms, the bedazzli...