A four-story Georgian townhouse in London complete with a blue plaque commemorating its famed former owner, Captain William Bligh, has come up for sale. The property hit the market for the first time ...

The property on Lambeth Road in south London, built in 1794, features an English Heritage blue plaque - unveiled by Prince Philip in 1952 - to recognise its first ever owner. Captain Bligh lived there ...

As if you didn’t know, Australia’s National Maritime Museum has an exhibition entitled “Bligh: hero or villain”. Too easy, Campese. Can I go first? (In fact, first and second, as I have already ...

BLIGH: WILLIAM BLIGH IN THE SOUTH SEAS By Anne Salmond University of California Press, $39.95, 528 pages, illustrated Poets are remembered for their finest writings, painters for their most vivid ...

When Lieut. Col. Joseph Foveaux returned to NSW in 1808 he was forced to take command, but refused to reinstate the ousted Governor William Bligh Outranking Johnston, Foveaux reluctantly assumed power ...

THE LIFE OF VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH — George Mackaness — Farrar & Rinehart ($5). Most U. S. novel readers and cinemaddicts picture Vice-Admiral William Bligh, captain of H.M.S. Bounty, as a brave, ...

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander. Viking Press. 416 pages. $27.95. The rehabilitation of William Bligh is one of those quixotic projects that pit history ...

James Cook rated him highly and, crucially, Joseph Banks was a friend, but William Bligh’s flaws made him unfit to be captain of The Bounty. He has been played by Hollywood’s leading men for almost 90 ...

Penguin Group (NZ) and co-publisher University of California Press are proud that Anne Salmond’s new biography about William Bligh is already receiving great critical acclaim. Leading world scholar on ...

Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas by Anne Salmond Viking $65 William Bligh, he of the mutiny on the Bounty, was arguably the most complex, interesting and observant of the European explorers in ...