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The "Bounty" ALEXANDER, CAROLINE
HarperPerennial, 2004 0006532462 / 9780006532460
Good , 8vo Surely this exhaustingly-researched, enthralling and enthusiastically-written tome is the last word on the most famous of all seafaring mutinies, that of shipmate Fletcher Christian and against Lieutenant Bligh on the Bounty. More than 200 years have gone by since the ship left England after dreadful weather kept it harbored for months, on its mission to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies. The mutiny in Tahiti left the mutineers scattered about the paradisiacal islands and found Bligh and 18 of his loyal crew members set adrift in a 23-foot open boat. Bligh, who'd served as Capt. James Cook's sailing master, fantastically maneuvered the crew on a 48-day, 3,600-mile journey to safety. Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance, is never in over her head even when weaving together densely twisting narratives, or explaining the unwritten rules of the Royal Navy, of the complexities of class and hierarchy that impelled much of what happened aboard the Bounty. The book centers far more on the effort to round up the mutineers than the actual mutiny itself. The book is enlivened by the colorful commentary of the crew members themselves, gleaned from letters and court documents. Alexander does us all the favor of presenting Bligh the way he was understood and received in his day--as a brilliant navigator who, when placed in context, was not a brutal task-master at all. She roots the tyrannical figure we know so well from the movies on the last-ditch efforts of one well-connected crew member to save his own hide from hanging.
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The Way to Xanadu ALEXANDER, CAROLINE
London Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1993 0297813137 / 9780297813132
Good , 8vo Is epic poetry based on fact or fantasy? Are those "faraway places" dreams or reality? To appreciate this guide fully, one must understand 19th-century English Romanticism, particularly Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Using the poem "Kubla Kahn" as her starting point, Alexander (One Dry Season, LJ 11/15/89) describes her extensive search for the reality behind the mystical. Moving across three continents, we encounter the people and cultures of Xanadu in Inner Mongolia, southeastern America and Florida's fountain of youth, Asia's Kashmir, Amarnath Cave, and Ethiopia's Mount Abora; detailed histories of each locale and earlier literary references are explored and explained. This rugged and unique travel guide is designed for scholars and students of 19th-century English literature and would be best used in conjunction with academic course work. It's not for the popular adventurer or pleasure-seeking vacationer/ tourist.
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