Oceania & Pacific · Modernised and illustrated edition
Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Providence
Modernized, illustrated English edition of Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Providence by William Bligh (1791-1793).
Two years after the Bounty, he dares to return to Tahiti for the breadfruit.
Read more ↓- about 550 pages
- Paperback
- English
- 18th century
Countries covered: French Polynesia · Spain · Cape Verde · South Africa · Australia · Cook Islands · Fiji · Papua New Guinea · Indonesia · Timor-Leste · St. Helena · St. Vincent & Grenadines · Jamaica
About this book
August 1791, Spithead roads. Two years after the mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh sails again for Tahiti with the same mission: to take on breadfruit and carry it to the West Indies. This time he commands two ships, the Providence and the Assistant, and brings an escort of marines.
By way of Tenerife, the Cape and Adventure Bay in Van Diemen's Land, he keeps his log day by day: the winds, the soundings, the health of the crew. At Matavai he finds an island at war, shipwrecked Englishmen and echoes of his mutineers. Tynah brings back the portrait of Cook, a Tahitian woman tells what became of Christian and his men, and Bligh watches as a passionate witness the marae, the funerals and the ranks of the chiefs, while hundreds of plants take root in their pots.
Then comes the return, hold and deck loaded with young trees: Fiji, the reefs of Torres Strait where canoes armed with bows attack the ships, Timor, the Indian Ocean, St Helena. Aboard travels Mydiddee, a young Tahitian who wanted to see England.
Will Bligh at last keep his promise to the king, and at what cost to those who followed him?
Product details
- Publisher
- Itinerarium Éditions
- Series
- Oceania & Pacific
- The author
- William Bligh
- Date of the journey
- 1791-1793
- Modern edition by
- Isabelle Perol
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback, 6 × 9 in (15.2 × 22.9 cm)
- Pages
- about 550
The author
William Bligh
William Bligh was born in 1754, most likely in Plymouth, and joined the navy in 1770. Master of the Resolution under Cook on the third voyage, he later commanded the Bounty, whose crew mutinied in April 1789; he reached Timor in an open boat. In 1791-1793 he sailed again with the Providence and succeeded in carrying breadfruit to the West Indies. He fought at Camperdown and Copenhagen, was deposed in 1808 in the Rum Rebellion in New South Wales, and died in London in 1817.
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In the Same Place, Through the Centuries
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James Wilson, A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff (1796-1798)
Five years after the Providence, the *Duff*, chartered by the London Missionary Society and commanded by James Wilson, drops anchor at Matavai on 5 March 1797.
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Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis (1801-1803)
The young Flinders was a midshipman aboard the Providence: he lived through the stop at Adventure Bay, the stay in Tahiti and the attack of the canoes in Torres Strait.
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William Ellis, Polynesian Researches, during a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands (1817-1822)
A missionary who reached the Society Islands in 1817, Ellis stayed there several years before leaving for Hawaii.
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Frederick William Beechey, Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait (1825-1828)
Beechey's *Blossom* sailed in 1825 for Bering Strait, but her crossing of the South Pacific took her first to Pitcairn, where he met John Adams, last survivor of the Bounty mutineers, and took down his account of the mutiny and…
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