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The Bounty from the Beach : Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Essays.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760462451
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Bounty from the BeachDDC classification:
  • 623.8225
LOC classification:
  • DU21 .B686 2018
Online resources:
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.
Summary: Just as it criss-crosses the ocean, progressing with the ship through time and space, 'The Bounty from the Beach' ranges far and wide across disciplines, methodologies and scholarly styles. Its multidisciplinary course contributes to illuminate the multiple ways in which the Bounty heritage embraces diverse horizons.
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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.

Just as it criss-crosses the ocean, progressing with the ship through time and space, 'The Bounty from the Beach' ranges far and wide across disciplines, methodologies and scholarly styles. Its multidisciplinary course contributes to illuminate the multiple ways in which the Bounty heritage embraces diverse horizons.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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