This book aims to recount the details missing from the most common accounts of the mutiny on the Bounty and the fate of Captain Bligh. It focuses on the figure of the captain himself, beginning with his role as Master and Chief Navigator of the Resolution on Captain Cook's third and final voyage and his reaction to the death of Cook. There is a short account of events on the Bounty leading to the mutiny, but the majority of the book focuses on the voyage undertaken by Bligh and eighteen of his men in a longboat, from the site of the mutiny near Tofua in the Friendly Islands (Tonga) to their arrival in Jakarta, Indonesia, from where they journeyed back to England. The book includes maps of the routes taken by Cook in his final voyage, the Bounty and Bligh's longboat, as well as a list of the mutineers, as reported by Bligh. There is also a copy of the map made by Bligh of Cape York, northern Australia.