Passage to Mutiny

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OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALES<br /><br />Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate <i>Tempest</i>. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England.<br /><br />Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France...