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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Australian National University 2018.
Series:Pacific Ser.
Subjects:
Bounty (Ship)
1789
Bounty Mutiny, 1789.
Colonization > Social aspects > History.
Mutinerie du Bounty, 1789.
Colonisation > Aspect social > Histoire.
Australasian & Pacific history.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Colonial influence.
Colonization > Social aspects.
Travel.
Oceania > Description and travel.
Oceania > Colonial influence.
Océanie > Descriptions et voyages.
Océanie > Influence coloniale.
Oceania.
Colonisation
Pacific history
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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