The Bounty from the beach : cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary essays /

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
Corporate Authors:	JSTOR (Organization), Australian National University Press
Other Authors:	Largeaud-Ortega, Sylvie, 1961-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2018.
Series:	Pacific series.
Subjects:	Bounty (Ship) Bounty Mutiny (1789) 1789 Bounty Mutiny, 1789. Colonization > Social aspects > History. Colonial influence. Colonization > Social aspects. Travel. Oceania > Description and travel. Oceania > Colonial influence. Oceania. Electronic books. History.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega
1. Contextualising the Bounty in Pacific Maritime Culture / Jean-Claude Teriierooiterai
2. Pitcairn before the Mutineers: Revisiting the Isolation of a Polynesian Island / Guillaume Molle and Aymeric Hermann
3. Reading the Bodies of the Bounty Mutineers / Rachael Utting
4. Nordhoff and Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty: A Piece of Colonial Historical Fiction / Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega
5. A Ship is Burning: Jack London's 'The Seed of McCoy' (Tales of the Pacific, 1911), or Sailing Away from Pitcairn / Jean-Pierre Naugrette
6. Brando on the Bounty / Roslyn Jolly and Simon Petch
7. Bounty Relics: Trading in the Legacy of Myth and Mutiny / Adrian Young.