Mutiny on the Bounty describes the historic voyage of 1788-1789 that culminated in Fletcher Christian’s mutiny against Captain Bligh. Those who chose not to sail with Christian and the mutineers enjoyed a brief idyll on Tahiti, before being captured and returned to England for court-martial. Roger Byam – by turns a midshipman on the Bounty, a chieftain by adoption in Tahiti, a mutineer condemned to death, and a sea captain under Nelson – tells a narrative few can forget.