Summary
Award-winning author Anne Salmond offers new insights into the mutiny aboard the Bounty, adding to the paradoxical legacy of the famed seaman William Bligh.
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspective the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh’s life in a riveting narrative …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143770831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143770837 |
| Author: | Anne Salmond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 153mm x 61mm |
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About The Author
Anne Salmond
Anne Salmond
Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. One of New Zealand’s most prominent anthropologists and historians.
Selected Works:
- Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings
- Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman
- Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder (co-written with Eruera Stirling; winner of a Wattie Book Award)
- Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772
- Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815 (winner of the Ernest Scott Prize)
- The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction)
- Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
- Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards)
Honours and Awards:
- CBE for services to literature and the Maori people (1988)
- Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history (1995)
- Elected foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) for excellence in scientific research (2009)
Professor Salmond lives in Devonport, Auckland.
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