The Bounty Trilogy In 1932, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall became best-selling authors with the publication of Mutiny on the Bounty. This story and its sequels are based upon the true story of mutiny and subsequent happenings on board an English naval vessel in the late 1700's. All of the accounts in this book have a historical basis but are pure fiction. The authors followed their successful first novel with the sequels,Men Against the …
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…of power struggles in which good ultimately triumphs over evil. Exotic fantasies of the long ago and far away were hot topics that offered Americans an emotional escape from the pains of The Great Depression, during the 1930s. It is now seventy years after the first publication of Mutiny on the Bounty, the sales of which can be counted in the many millions, and still this trilogy is unsurpassed in its dramatic of sea adventure.