The Voyage of The Bounty to the South Sea, by William Bligh, Part 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Let’s continue the infamous voyage of HMS Bounty, which so far isn’t too exciting. This time, lots of latitude and longitude marking, Fletcher Christian gets a promotion, we see a whale, and the attempt to round Cape Horn is...something less than successful.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
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| 1:21.0 | Now, let's read and relax. |
| 1:27.0 | Find a comfortable spot. |
| 1:31.0 | Adjust your volume. |
| 1:35.0 | Take a nice deep breath in. |
| 1:40.0 | Let it out slowly. And off we go. |
| 1:47.0 | Tonight, let's fulfill some listener requests and relax with more from a voyage to the South Sea, |
| 1:57.7 | undertaken by command of his majesty for the purpose of conveying the breadfruit tree to the West Indies. |
| 2:05.8 | In His Majesty's ship, the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bly, including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent |
| 2:19.6 | voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat, from Tafoa, one of the friendly islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies, the whole Illustrated with Charts, etc. |
| 2:35.0 | Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, |
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