[HMS BOUNTY] &
[BLIGH (William).]
Pitcairn's Island, and the Islanders, in 1850.
[HMS BOUNTY] &
[BLIGH (William).]
Pitcairn's Island, and the Islanders, in 1850.
An appealing copy of Brodie’s work on Pitcairn Island, published in the same year as the first edition.
As Hill attests, Brodie’s text is largely concerned with the descendants of the Bounty mutineers: “Brodie on his way to the California gold fields from New Zealand, was stranded at Pitcairn when his vessel was blown off shore. During his long visit, he wrote this account of the later events in the lives of the Bounty mutineers. He gives a very detailed list of all the Bounty descendants and a valuable shipping record of vessels calling at the island. In this book are a great many visitors’ letters.” There is also a List of ships which have touched Pitcairn since 1808.
This work provides an important eyewitness account of life on mid-nineteenth-century Pitcairn Island, the very existence of which is a direct consequence of the mutiny on the Bounty.
Ferguson, 7444; Hill, 185 (first edition); Howes, B 797; Howgego I, F125.
