About this ebook
Peter Corris uses his formidable storytelling skills to bring us the ‘true story’ of the events surrounding the mutiny on the bounty.
A fascinating and brilliantly-told tale of rollicking ship life and the seductive charm of the Pacific Islands. While researching his family ancestry, historian Peter Corris discovers an old Manx connection to history's most famous mutineer, Fletcher Christian. Years later a mysterious parcel addressed to Corris arrives, containing two old journals. The first, an intimate and adventurous chronicle of American Henry Corkill's life at sea, is inextricably bound through history and blood to the second - that of Fletcher Christian, acting lieutenant on the Bounty and English rebel. Translated from eighteenth century Manx , Christian's journal reveals the dark and violent history of the mutiny and the fateful beginnings of Pitcairn Island.
Binding together three lives, two histories and a fractured world of new - and old - cultures, The Journal of Fletcher Christian is a riveting tale of men and madness, and a dazzling work of the imagination.
A fascinating and brilliantly-told tale of rollicking ship life and the seductive charm of the Pacific Islands. While researching his family ancestry, historian Peter Corris discovers an old Manx connection to history's most famous mutineer, Fletcher Christian. Years later a mysterious parcel addressed to Corris arrives, containing two old journals. The first, an intimate and adventurous chronicle of American Henry Corkill's life at sea, is inextricably bound through history and blood to the second - that of Fletcher Christian, acting lieutenant on the Bounty and English rebel. Translated from eighteenth century Manx , Christian's journal reveals the dark and violent history of the mutiny and the fateful beginnings of Pitcairn Island.
Binding together three lives, two histories and a fractured world of new - and old - cultures, The Journal of Fletcher Christian is a riveting tale of men and madness, and a dazzling work of the imagination.
About the author
Peter Corris’s first novel was published in 1980 and he has been a full-time writer since 1982. Through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the Australian crime story was in the hands of writers producing mass market pulp novelettes. Although written in Australia, these stories usually had pseudo American or British settings. Peter Corris is credited with reviving the fully-fledged Australian crime novel with local settings and reference points and with a series character firmly rooted in Australian culture – Cliff Hardy. Peter has written over 40 Cliff Hardy novels. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing Lifetime Achievement Award.
Peter has a Master's degree and a PhD in history. He was literary editor of The National Times from in the 1980s and writes the regular 'Godfather' column and book reviews for the Newtown Review of Books.
He is married to writer Jean Bedford and they have three daughters. He lives in Sydney.
Peter has a Master's degree and a PhD in history. He was literary editor of The National Times from in the 1980s and writes the regular 'Godfather' column and book reviews for the Newtown Review of Books.
He is married to writer Jean Bedford and they have three daughters. He lives in Sydney.
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