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The Bounty from the Beach

This selection of cross-disciplinary essays around the Bounty capitalises on a widely shared fascination for the Bounty story in order to draw scholarly attention to Oceania. It aims to reorient the Bounty focus away from the West, where most Bounty narratives and studies have emerged, to the Pacifi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Australian National University 2018.
Collection:Pacific Ser.
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Table des matières:
  • Intro; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Contextualising the Bounty in Pacific Maritime Culture; 2. Pitcairn before the Mutineers: Revisiting the Isolation of a Polynesian Island; 3. Reading the Bodies of the Bounty Mutineers; 4. Nordhoff and Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty: A Piece of Colonial Historical Fiction; 5. A Ship is Burning: Jack London's 'The Seed of McCoy' (Tales of the Pacific, 1911), or Sailing Away from Pitcairn; 6. Brando on the Bounty; 7. Bounty Relics: Trading in the Legacy of Myth and Mutiny; Bibliography