Füchtenschnieder, Simon Meuterei im Paradis

Die Fahrt der Bounty und die globale Wirtschaft im 18. Jahrhundert

Simon Füchtenschnieder gives a thrilling account of the Bounty's voyage, the mutiny on board, and the fate of the crew members. For the first time, he embeds this legendary material from various adventure stories in the maritime historical and economic context of its time and shows that the story of the Bounty was not an isolated event, but rather a precursor to early globalization, which continues to shape our world today. There had never been a mutiny like the one that took place on the Bounty on April 28, 1789: Captain William Bligh and 18 crew members were set adrift in a small boat in the middle of the South Seascertain death, really, but the unbelievable happened: he and the men abandoned with him reached a safe harbor and returned to England from there. By 1791, Bligh was back at sea, determined to bring his project of transplanting breadfruit as a food source to a successful conclusion. In a gripping and close-hauled manner, Simon Füchtenschnieder takes a deep dive into the life and work on British ships in the 18th century and reveals the power politics and global trade interests behind the transplantation of the breadfruit. An atmospheric, gripping story of the Bounty and probably the most famous mutiny of all time: told in a new and historically accurate way, beyond all Hollywood romanticism.