William Bligh (1754-1817) is famous as the captain who lost command of his ship, the Bounty, through mutiny in the South Seas and then undertook an epic journey in an overcrowded small boat across the Pacific.
He appears as an author as he wrote a memoir of his experiences.
AOS Naval Non-Fiction
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The Bounty Mutiny: Captain William Bligh's Firsthand Account of the Last Voyage of HMS Bounty (aka A voyage to the South sea: undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies ..)