Unpositioned Something is wrong

Paradise in chains : the Bounty mutiny and the founding of Australia / Diana Preston

This dual history examines the parallel 18th-century survival voyages of William Bligh after the mutiny on the Bounty and a group of convicts escaping the Australian penal colony. It explores their journeys across the Pacific and encounters with various island nations.

Author

ISBN

Publisher

CONNECTIONS

No connections

LOCATION HISTORY

No location history available for this book.

FULL RECORD

Accession Number: 34274

Site: Vernon O Content

Collection: N/A

Location: N/A

Binding Type: Hard Back

Book Images

Hover to see live images

No live

Paradise in chains : the Bounty mutiny and the founding of Australia / Diana Preston cover

No live

Vernon Fields

View in Vernon Browser

vernon_accession	34274
vernon_id	46688
vernon_slug	paradise-in-chains-the-bounty-mutiny-and-the-founding-of-australia-diana-preston
vernon_authors	Diana Preston
vernon_tags	Social sciences, Civilisation, Sociology, Social history, Crime, Social problems, Islands of the Pacific, Australia -- History, Bounty Mutiny, 1789, Mutiny -- Great Britain, Naval offences
vernon_production_date	2017
vernon_brief_description	Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. -- publisher
vernon_object_type	Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication
vernon_locations	Storage
vernon_ob_status	Accessioned
vernon_isbn_issn	9781632866103
vernon_subject_people	William Bligh (English, b.1754, d.1817)
vernon_subject_objects	—
vernon_subject_classes	—
vernon_last_sync_timestamp	2026-04-27 09:50
vernon_cover_image_id	59274

VERNON RECORD

{
  "slug": "paradise-in-chains-the-bounty-mutiny-and-the-founding-of-australia-diana-preston",
  "opacObjectId": "46688",
  "opacCollection": {
    "opacCollectionId": "1"
  },
  "imagesCollection": {
    "images": [
      {
        "imageId": "59274",
        "cssColors": [
          {
            "hex": "000000",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 34.07,
            "colorName": "black",
            "lightness": 0,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 0,
            "formattedColorName": "black"
          },
          {
            "hex": "808080",
            "hue": 0,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 53.45,
            "colorName": "gray",
            "lightness": 50,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 0,
            "formattedColorName": "gray"
          },
          {
            "hex": "f5f5dc",
            "hue": 60,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 7.29,
            "colorName": "beige",
            "lightness": 91,
            "colorGroup": "white",
            "saturation": 56,
            "formattedColorName": "beige"
          },
          {
            "hex": "d2b48c",
            "hue": 34,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 2.78,
            "colorName": "tan",
            "lightness": 69,
            "colorGroup": "brown",
            "saturation": 44,
            "formattedColorName": "tan"
          }
        ],
        "rawColors": [
          {
            "hex": "182b27",
            "hue": 167,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 34.07,
            "lightness": 13,
            "saturation": 28
          },
          {
            "hex": "958e71",
            "hue": 48,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 53.45,
            "lightness": 51,
            "saturation": 14
          },
          {
            "hex": "e4e8d3",
            "hue": 71,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 7.29,
            "lightness": 86,
            "saturation": 31
          },
          {
            "hex": "dcd1a7",
            "hue": 47,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 2.78,
            "lightness": 75,
            "saturation": 43
          },
          {
            "hex": "4a3e23",
            "hue": 41,
            "rank": 5,
            "presence": 0.64,
            "lightness": 21,
            "saturation": 35
          },
          {
            "hex": "c5cdaf",
            "hue": 76,
            "rank": 6,
            "presence": 1.31,
            "lightness": 74,
            "saturation": 23
          },
          {
            "hex": "665824",
            "hue": 47,
            "rank": 7,
            "presence": 0.46,
            "lightness": 27,
            "saturation": 47
          }
        ],
        "imageLabels": [
          {
            "count": 80,
            "score": 86.58,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Mast",
            "imageLabelId": 106
          },
          {
            "count": 31,
            "score": 79.75,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Sailing ship",
            "imageLabelId": 1771
          },
          {
            "count": 16904,
            "score": 76.49,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Publication",
            "imageLabelId": 23
          },
          {
            "count": 10889,
            "score": 68.95,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Book cover",
            "imageLabelId": 90
          },
          {
            "count": 246,
            "score": 68.41,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Boat",
            "imageLabelId": 96
          },
          {
            "count": 22,
            "score": 68.19,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Tall ship",
            "imageLabelId": 110
          },
          {
            "count": 2271,
            "score": 66.7,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Novel",
            "imageLabelId": 2008
          },
          {
            "count": 9,
            "score": 63.67,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Full-rigged ship",
            "imageLabelId": 109
          },
          {
            "count": 13280,
            "score": 62.67,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Book",
            "imageLabelId": 67
          },
          {
            "count": 3,
            "score": 59.84,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Windjammer",
            "imageLabelId": 2711
          }
        ],
        "imageDerivatives": [
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/large/41706/c86cf4a683877fe29ce4a493c4231c1ce61cc48a.jpg",
            "width": "529",
            "height": "800",
            "identifier": "LARGE"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/medium/41706/c86cf4a683877fe29ce4a493c4231c1ce61cc48a.jpg",
            "width": "265",
            "height": "400",
            "identifier": "MEDIUM"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/nano/41706/c86cf4a683877fe29ce4a493c4231c1ce61cc48a.jpg",
            "width": "23",
            "height": "35",
            "identifier": "NANO"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/small/41706/c86cf4a683877fe29ce4a493c4231c1ce61cc48a.jpg",
            "width": "99",
            "height": "150",
            "identifier": "SMALL"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/tiny/41706/c86cf4a683877fe29ce4a493c4231c1ce61cc48a.jpg",
            "width": "50",
            "height": "75",
            "identifier": "TINY"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/xlarge/41706/c86cf4a683877fe29ce4a493c4231c1ce61cc48a.jpg",
            "width": "794",
            "height": "1200",
            "identifier": "XLARGE"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "totalImages": 1
  },
  "objectSearchScore": 1.3253664,
  "opacObjectFieldSets": [
    {
      "identifier": "accession_no",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "34274"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Paradise in chains : the Bounty mutiny and the founding of Australia / Diana Preston",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "title",
              "value": "Paradise in chains : the Bounty mutiny and the founding of Australia / Diana Preston"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "other_name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "artist_last_first",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Preston, Diana"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "2017",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "earliest_date",
              "value": "2017-01-01Z"
            },
            {
              "key": "latest_date",
              "value": "2017-12-31Z"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "edition",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "brief_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. -- publisher"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "measure_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "credit_line",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "curr_loc_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Storage",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "curr_loc_status:\"Storage\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "ob_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Accessioned"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "lender",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_owner",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_start",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_expiry",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "object_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "object_type:\"Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "collection",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Main Collection/Library",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "collection:\"Main Collection/Library\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "New York City/New York/United States of America"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "physical_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "language",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "English"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "isbn_issn",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "9781632866103"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_1",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "996.18 PRE"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "usual_loc_being",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_class",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Australia -- History",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Australia -- History\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Bounty Mutiny, 1789/Mutiny -- Great Britain/Naval offences/Crime/Social problems/Social history/Sociology/Social sciences/Civilisation",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Bounty Mutiny, 1789/Mutiny -- Great Britain/Naval offences/Crime/Social problems/Social history/Sociology/Social sciences/Civilisation\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Islands of the Pacific",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Islands of the Pacific\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_date",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_period",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "William Bligh (English, b.1754, d.1817)",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_person:\"William Bligh (English, b.1754, d.1817)\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Australia",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_place:\"Australia\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_9",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "relationshipsCollection": {
    "relationships": [
      {
        "relatedRecords": [
          {
            "slug": "diana-preston",
            "title": "Diana Preston",
            "relatedRecordId": "33705"
          }
        ],
        "relationshipId": "object_prod_pri_person",
        "relatedRecordType": "person",
        "totalRelatedRecords": 1
      }
    ],
    "totalRelationships": 1
  }
}