Wicked Words - Brandon Presser: Mutiny and Murder in the South Pacific
Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson
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The Story of a Shipwreck
Not enough career seamen essentially who would be loyal to him. So he had a whole coterie of 15 year old boys, and then he had brute strength. And that was sort of part of the recipe for what would eventually be a disaster. They left around christmas, and blye would have made an empty promise that they'd be done by the following christmas. But of course, they didn't even reach tahiti until october of the following year. That included stops to repair the ship. That included months without any stops, eating disgusting rations at that point.
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