Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall,[1] based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789.

It was the first of what became The Bounty Trilogy, which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island.

The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood.

[2] Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny.

He subsequently returns to Tahiti and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial.