In December 1787, H. M. S. Bounty, a British armed transport commanded by a brutal martinet named William Bligh, set sail from Spithead, England, for Tahiti, from which it was to take breadfruit ...

Soon the coconut radios of Tahiti were spreading the message that Tarita had become Hollywood’s newest star. Some Tahitians, however, are ready to mutiny against Bounty. Compounded of residual ...

Back in 1789, British sailors in the Pacific mutinied on the HMS Bounty and settled on Tahiti and Pitcairn Island. While the mutineers on Tahiti were later arrested by the British, those on ...