Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource by William Bligh (Golden Cockerel Press, 1937)

In 1934 the Golden Cockerel Press published the first in its series of books about the voyage of HMS Bounty and the famous mutiny aboard her (full details on my GCP bibliography). The five books published in this series included The Log of the Bounty herself, Captain Bligh’s log from the launch in which he was set adrift and, reviewed here, the logs of Bligh’s … Continue reading Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource by William Bligh (Golden Cockerel Press, 1937)

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. by James Boswell (Limited Editions Club, 1974)

What could be more incongruous that the chief intellectual of the eighteenth-century riding upon a small pony through the boggy mires of North-West Scotland? Fortunately, James Boswell was on hand to record the occasion for posterity. Continue reading The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. by James Boswell (Limited Editions Club, 1974)