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In a fine and measured biography, "Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas," Anne Salmond penetrates the wooden world of the Bounty to show us a microcosm of British society at the time, with all its social, political and economic fermentation.
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William Bligh to Tahiti in 1787 to collect breadfruit specimens to help feed colonies in the West Indies.
'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible Julia Flynn Siler 2011
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Led by master's mate Fletcher Christian, they condemned the captain, William Bligh, and his loyalists to certain death by setting them adrift in a small boat in the middle of nowhere.
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Their endurance feat was a single-boat record, seven hundred miles and two days longer than the famous voyage completed by English captain William Bligh and eighteen sailors following the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Bligh—better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty.
Books in the Mail (W/E 03/27/2010) RobB 2010
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For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Bligh—better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty.
Archive 2010-03-01 RobB 2010
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Their endurance feat was a single-boat record, seven hundred miles and two days longer than the famous voyage completed by English captain William Bligh and eighteen sailors following the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Governor William Bligh the same Bligh who was mutineed against on the HMS Bounty has been deposed once more and sent packing to Tasmania, there to plot his return.
Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games: May 2009 Archives 2009
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Governor William Bligh the same Bligh who was mutineed against on the HMS Bounty has been deposed once more and sent packing to Tasmania, there to plot his return.
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* William Bligh was a great sailor; witness his experience of survival of over a month in an open boat, traveling over 3600 miles, with limited food and water, through rough seas, ultimately arriving safely in West Timor.
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