Largeaud-Ortega, Sylvie.

The Bounty from the Beach : Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Essays. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (272 pages) - Pacific Series . - Pacific Series .

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.

9781760462451


Bounty (Ship).
Bounty Mutiny, 1789.
Colonization-Social aspects-History.


Electronic books.

DU21 .B686 2018

623.8225