A breadfruit mission ended in mutiny and an 18-month voyage

In 1789, officer Fletcher Christian and part of the crew of HMS Bounty seized the ship and set Captain William Bligh adrift in a 23-foot open boat with 18 loyal men. Bligh then navigated over 3,600 nautical miles to safety using only a sextant and compass, losing just one man. The mutineers eventually settled on remote Pitcairn Island, where their descendants still live today.

— Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty — 2003
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