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Title: Mutiny's Curse: A Novel by Dan L. Thrapp ISBN: 1-58919-949-9 Publisher: Cook Communications Ministries Intl Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99

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Rating: 5
Summary: A Bounty masterpiece
Comment: Dan Thrapp is best known as a Southwestern historian and authority on the Army's campaigns against the Indian people of New Mexico and Arizona. (His 'Conquest of Apacheria' remains the standard book on the Apache Wars).
'Mutiny's Curse' is a 180-degree turn from this classic historian's work: a novel, to begin with, and -- of all things --a novel about the aftermath of the 1789 mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty. This, as every reader and movie-goer knows, was the incident that gave us Captain William Bligh and his nemesis, Fletcher Christian.
Thrapp, during his service in WW2, visited the Isle of Man, Christian's birthplace, and became fascinated by the legends that Christian survived his self-imposed exile on Pitcairn's Island in the remote South Seas, and actually made his way back to England. Such legends were (and presumably still are) active among Manxmen Christian's descendents.
Thrapp has Christian escape from Pitcairn's to the west coast of South America where, in his harrowing travels down the coast he becomes involved in the wars and battles of liberation from Spain, and eventually finds his way to London where, in a magnificent, gripping, scene he encounters the man who ruined his life -- Captain Bligh!
Thrapp was a magnificent stylist, even in his historical books, and 'Mutiny's Curse' is a showcase for his great gift as story-teller.
This splendid novel takes a rightful place beside Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's 'Bounty Trilogy' -- and that is very high praise.