Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Truth, notoriously less neat than fiction, occasionally turns up art readymade. Such a made-to-order true story is the tale of the Bounty, 18th Century British brig whose voyage to Tahiti and back was cut short in the Pacific by mutiny. In Mutiny on the Bounty (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932) Authors Nordhoff & Hall told the first part of the tale. Men against the Sea is a straightforward but circumstantial account of what happened to Captain Bligh and his men when the mutineers cast them off in an open boat in the mid-Pacific. (The final part, Pitcairn...
...Captain Bligh and 18 men adrift in a ship's boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away. Prevailing easterly winds made a return to Tahiti impossible. The boat was only 23 feet long, so heavily laden that there was less than nine inches of freeboard amidships. They had to bail almost continually to keep afloat...
Proposition: If he would let the Mogul come unharmed into Los Angeles Harbor, her 40,000 cases of liquor ($500,000), owned by Frenchmen of Tahiti, would be put in a bonded warehouse to be sold "in accordance with any import quotas that...
Luckily a missing witness turned up. and almost at the last minute Byam was reprieved. Years later, still in His Majesty's service and still non-mutinous, he went to Tahiti again. His wife was dead, his half- caste daughter married. On Pitcairn Island he found the descendants and a few survivors of the Bounty's mutineers...
Both were 30. After the War they settled in Tahiti, married (Author Nordhoff to a native Tahitian) and have lived there ever since. No glorified beachcombers, they have worked hard & seriously, have produced between them a dozen books, three of them collaborations...