Passage to Mutiny (The Bolitho Novels) (Volume 7) (original 1976; edition 1999)

by Alexander Kent (Author)

Series: Bolitho (09, 1787)

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OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALES Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France...… (more)

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Assigned to transport Raymond and his wife to remote S. Seas island outpost Bolitho confronts hostile natives and a pirate set on making the outpost his headquarters. He must take ship's boats 500 miles for help, then fight pirate. He loses Viola and nearly dies of fever in last battle.

ritaer | May 5, 2023 |

Perhaps the most moving of all the Richard Bolitho books I've read. (

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SteveKSmy | Apr 16, 2013 |

This is one of the two best this far into the series. I enjoyed the slightly darker tone. (

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1976

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1789)

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Where lies the land to which he ship would go?
Far, far ahead, is all her seaman know.
And where lies the land she travels from? Away
Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
Arthur Hugh Clough

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For Winfred with love

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It was almost noon, and the sun which blazed across Sydney harbour was pitiless in its intensity.

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OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALES Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France...

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