Some seventeen years after the mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh sets sail for New South Wales as Governor-elect of the fledgling colony. He is accompanied by his daughter Mary, the narrator of this extraordinary shipboard tale. A cultured young Englishwoman, Mary is entirely unprepared for the voyage – the great emptiness of the ocean, the unfamiliar rituals, the terrifying storms, the. Peter Cochrane is an award-winning historian whose accolades include the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. In Governor Bligh and the Short Man he proves himself to be as adept a writer of fiction as he is of history. 'His characterisation of Mary is perfect and full of drama.' Troy Lennon, Daily Telegraph. · The subject of this short novel, a spat between two volatile characters, Governor Elect William Bligh and Captain Short, has fascinated Australian historian Peter Cochrane for some time. Rather than write this episode up as a straight historical account, Cochrane has taken the somewhat unusual path of turning it into a novella.
Some seventeen years after the mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh sets sail for New South Wales as Governor-elect of the fledgling colony. He is accompanied by his daughter Mary, the narrator of this extraordinary shipboard tale. A cultured young. Peter is an Honorary Associate in the School of Philosophical Historical Inquiry,University of Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His first venture into fiction was the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man () and his most recent work of non-fiction is Best We Forget. Historian Peter Cochrane's first major work of fiction (following his novella, Governor Bligh and the Short Man) portrays a Hobbesian nightmare world, where life is nasty, brutish and short. Full of hair-raising violence and murder, it's the sort of world that Shakespeare's nihilistic Iago would have felt right at home in. Cochrane.
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