The Bounty Trilogy
The Bounty Trilogy is a book comprising three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It relates events prior to, during and subsequent to the Mutiny on the Bounty.
The three novels, previously published separately, are:—
- Mutiny on the Bounty, first published 1932.
- Men Against the Sea, first published 1933.
- Pitcairn's Island, first published 1934.
The Bounty Trilogy was first published in 1936 by Little, Brown and Company, with a new preface by the authors and included vignette decorations by Henry Pitz. This edition used the plates from the original novels and had 903 pages.
In 1940 a new edition was published by Little, Brown and Company, with illustrations by
In 1953 a School Edition was prepared by Florence Doerr Jones and published by the Globe Book Company of New York. This version of The Bounty Trilogy is an abridgment and does not preserve the dimensions of the original publication. In addition to abridging the trilogy, the number of characters was reduced, and the vocabulary was simplified wherever possible. [1]
- ^ Copyright page and Editor's Forward to the Globe Book edition of The Bounty Trilogy.
References
- The Bounty Trilogy, 1945 edition published by Grosset & Dunlap, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall