Les Révoltés de la Bounty
Les Révoltés de la Bounty is a short story by the French author Jules Verne . It was 1879 that the French title of the volume 18 of the Appendix Voyages extraordinaires The 500 million of the Begum ( French title Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Begum ) in France published.
action
Former Collier (coal transporter) Bounty of the Royal Navy leaves under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh in 1787 the British port of Portsmouth . Your task is to collect saplings of the breadfruit tree on the then still unexplored South Sea islands . The aim of the British government is to plant these in the West Indies . In Tahiti , the saplings are taken on board during a five-month stay. On the further voyage, the Bounty was seized by mutineers in the South Seas under the leadership of First Officer Fletcher Christian . Bligh is abandoned in a sloop with several followers . However, after 48 days on the open sea, he and his sloop crew managed to reach the only European base known to Bligh at the time in Kupang on the island of Timor, 5,800 kilometers away . This journey of the overloaded sloop under grueling conditions is still regarded as a nautical top achievement by William Bligh.
The mutineers' voyage with the Bounty, on the other hand, ends at Pitcairn Island , where they settle.
Specialty
In contrast to other narrators of the story of the mutiny on the Bounty, Jules Verne focuses on the sailing of the sloop under the command of Bligh and its special nautical performance.
literature
- Heinrich Pleticha (ed.): Jules Verne manual . Deutscher Bücherbund / Bertelsmann, Stuttgart and Munich 1992.
- Volker Dehs and Ralf Junkerjürgen: Jules Verne . Voices and interpretations of his work. Fantastic Library Wetzlar, Wetzlar 2005.
- Volker Dehs : Jules Verne . Jules Verne. A critical biography. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2005. ISBN 3-538-07208-6
