The Bounty: the true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. Caroline Alexander. 2003.

Just before sunrise on the morning of April 28, 1789, in the far reaches of the South Pacific, Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian and three other men, armed with cutlasses,  bayonets and a musket, apprehended Lieutenant William Bligh and placed him and eighteen officers and crewmen in a small boat. The mutiny on board His Majesty’s armed transport Bounty impelled every man on a fateful course- Bligh and his loyalists on a historic boat voyage, Christian and his followers on their restless exile. Bligh himself returned to Britain as a hero, but that was not his final destiny. Ten of the Bounty’s crew were eventually captured in Tahiti and brought back to England in irons to face their day in court, and it was in the dynamics and politics of their court-martial and its aftermath that the story we know - or think we know - as the mutiny on the Bounty was shaped.