# mutiny on bounty

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 18, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911 "2002-10-18T23:42:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911/1 "2002-10-18T23:42:47Z")

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I am looking for an online version of “the mutiny aboard hms bounty” by william bligh. google has 15 billion references to the affair, but i can’t find the text. i’m convinced that the copyright is expired(!!) so, why isn’t it online? gutenberg project doesn’t have it and i can’t find it at bartleby either. … i am wanting to read it without paying money, can anyone help me find it?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911/2 "2002-10-19T00:05:26Z")

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Try doing searches for the follow-up books _Men Against the Sea_ and _Pitcairn Island_.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911/3 "2002-10-19T03:08:54Z")

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no that didn’t work. i wanted…mutiny aboard hms bounty…the actual non fiction and the one by bligh.

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911/4 "2002-10-19T03:16:08Z")

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I found a copy of Bligh’s book at our local thrift shop for about a half dollar. Do you have used bookstores in your area?

I can appreciate that you do not wish to spend any money, but sometimes you have to loose the purse strings a little.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911/5 "2002-10-19T16:57:13Z")

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Not all the books in the public domain are available as e-texts online. Somebody has to go to the trouble of scanning the pages, running the character-recognition software, and most time consuming of all, fix all the mistakes the software makes.

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> \*Originally posted by handsomeharry \*  
> \*\*i am wanting to read it without paying money, can anyone help me find it? \*\*

Go to your local public library. If they don’t have this title, they can probably get it for you through interlibrary loan.

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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mutiny-on-bounty/132911/6 "2002-10-19T17:01:27Z")

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I didn’t see it there now, but the Gutenberg Project is always a good first stop for old books that have passed into PD.

> **[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/)**
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> Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.