Cirrus@Austlit

'The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean has become the stuff of legend. But Bligh's escape was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British colonization. Nine convicts from the Australian penal colony also traveled across uncharted seas to land at the same Pacific port Bligh reached only months before. This meticulously researched dual narrative of survival shows how these seemingly utopian lands became a place where mutineers, convicts, and eventually the natives themselves, were chained.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.