Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora
Gelesen von Roy Schreiber
George Hamilton
(4,155 Sterne; 42 Bewertungen)
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to England for trial. The commander, Captain Edward Edwards, also was ordered to chart the passage between Australia and New Guinea. While Edwards managed to arrest the mutineers still on Tahiti, he sank the Pandora on a reef near Australia. Hamilton tells this story and also the story of the crew's fate after the Pandora sank. (Summary by Roy Schreiber) (2 hr 54 min)
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potential for greatness - but rushed
Jaded_GRL
(3 Sterne)
I am sure the true story of this person and the Pandora's voyage would be amazing to read and hear about. unfortunately, this person is really not a writter. it's more of a travel LOG than actual journal. no details or descriptions really, so his writings do not draw a picture for you of life on board or at the islands and you don't feel the distress of sinking or being adrift nor the joy of coming on land and getting water. the reader is not the best either. he is not bad, but he only reads the words on the page and doesn't bring them to life. though, he didn't have much to work with.
real-life Patrick O'Brian
awmac
(4 Sterne)
To compare 18th c memoire to Payrick O'Brians Master and Commander series is a little unfair to the former. However there is a great deal to the comparison both in terms of era, subject and tone. What I was perhaps less prepared for was the amount of sex and STDs -- politely alluded to in the appropriate parlance of the times. 200 years later we can safely smile at the challenge those poor sailors and Souths Seas natives faced in the early years of globalization.
An interesting story.
Timothy Ferguson
(3 Sterne)
Like many biographies it lacks the benefits of the narrative: the tale does not carry through satisfactorally, characters are all but anonymous. Anthropologically interesting. I suppose it suffers in comparison to Bligh's book, to which I see it as a sort of sequel.
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Tennis Terry
(3,5 Sterne)
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