About the book
Richard Woodman surveys mutiny from the sixteenth century to the twentieth: Henry Hudson set adrift by his crew in 1611, the Bounty in 1789, the great fleet mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797, the bloody Hermione, the Potemkin in 1905 and the Royal Navy's pay strike at Invergordon in 1931, among many others. He is interested in what drove men to it as much as in what they did.
Woodman spent his career at sea, latterly as a master with Trinity House, and is best known for the Nathaniel Drinkwater naval novels and his histories of the merchant service.
Notes
To come.