The Bounty: A Geographic History

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In April 1789, about half of the crew of the British Royal Navy ship Bounty, just out of Tahiti, mutinied against her commander, Lt. William Bligh. This event is well-known and often retold in popular culture, but it also has a tremendous reach throughout the world and in recent history. In this video we’ll look at all aspects of the Bounty phenomenon through the lens of geography and place, examining the locations where parts of the story happened and analyzing what unites them. This is the story of the mutiny on the Bounty as you’ve never heard it told before.

CORRECTIONS KNOWN AT THIS TIME:
The Elizabethan playwright was named Christopher (Kit) Marlowe (not Philip Marlowe)
Trevor Howard was nominated for a 1960 Oscar, but did not win.

Sources for this video included: William Bligh, Official Log of HMAV Bounty, 1787-1789, https://web.archive.org/web/201605301... William Bligh, Narrative of the Mutiny on the Bounty (London: George Nicol, 1790), http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects... Caroline Alexander, The Bounty (New York: Penguin Group, 2003); Glynn Christian, Fragile Paradise (Sydney: Doubleday, 1999); Greg Dening, Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Rob Mundle, Bligh: Master Mariner (Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2010); Sven Wahlroos, Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure (Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers, 1989); Robert Borofsky, “Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere and Sahlins: CA Forum on Theory in Anthropology,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No. 2 (April 1997), 255-282; Marie-Thérèse & Bengt Danielsson, “Bligh’s Cave: 196 Years On,” Pacific Island Monthly, Vol. 56, No. 6 (June 1, 1985), 25-26; Paul T. Knaak, "Blood, Sweat, and Social Control: A Comparative Study of Virginian and Jamaican Slavery,
1740-1820" (2016). All College Thesis Program, 2016-present. 3.
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The interstitial music in this video is (in order of appearance): “Guardian of the Mystic Fortress” by Melody Hong; “Sailing Ages” by Jayson Wayne Brown; and “Freedom For Me” by Ananta Kongka.

Special thanks to: David Albers, Lawarch, John Marcucci, Brayden Silva, and Rob Lordan of the RobsLondon channel.

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Chapters:
00:00-23:34: The Bounty Phenomenon
23:34-40:24: The Outside Context
40:24-55:56: Captain Cook
55:56-1:12:16: England (I)
1:12:16-1:36:00: England (II)
1:36:00-1:38:17: A Brief Interlude
1:38:17-1:52:16: The Atlantic
1:52:16-2:06:05: Tahiti (I)
2:06:05-2:21:16: Tahiti (II)
2:21:16-2:35:36: The Mutiny
2:35:36-2:53:09: The Other Islands
2:53:09-2:59:48: The East Indies
2:59:48-3:17:30: Australia
3:17:30-3:31:29: Pitcairn Island
3:31:29-3:37:25: Conclusion