William Bligh lost his ship Bounty at the hands of ... which I had researched for a book. There was also a personal incentive. I had briefly lived in Jamaica as a child, and one of my earliest ...

William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in history. His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty, to such despair that they were forced ...