by Kip Campbell and Carrie Dos Santos –
Many books in the Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system can be paired, read in close succession, to explore a particular topic in depth. Two such volumes involve 18th-century mutinies aboard British warships and the far-reaching effects of each.
In late April 1789, off the central Pacific island of Tofua, on the far side of the world, acting-lieutenant Fletcher Christian and much of the crew of the armed transport ship HMS “Bounty” mutinied.
