Should they encounter the British captain James Cook, Franklin wrote ... including a young officer named William Bligh, who years later would survive an infamous mutiny on board his own ship ...

I first encountered Tupaia while researching Captain Samuel Wallis and the European discovery of Tahiti, and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh,' Anne explains. 'In both Wallis's ...

Captain William Bligh being cast adrift Bligh decided – no more islands. Instead, he headed for the nearest European settlement, the Dutch East Indies, thousands of miles away. He set the ration ...