Stunning narration of a harrowing experience. Truth is far stranger than fiction, and this truth was a long time coming. Time changes things, but things never really change despite our progression and the passage of time—humanity, for all its advancements, is still a self-serving, fearful race. Our alliances shift, but our suspicions and superiorities find new targets. In this telling of a page in particular history, the prejudices of two hundred years ago reflect the continued racism of today. Do we ever learn? Or does history merely show us that the one thing we learn from it is that we never really learn from history…?

The truth will out. We can count on that. And all the concealed truths are outed in this exposé. Mutiny, murder, shipwreck, deception, double-crossings, and accusations believed for decades find their way to the same page, and the truth concealed in one man’s take on another man’s life and motives are examined by a third man’s unbiased investigation of all these one-sided accounts with the discovery and enlightened perspective of hindsight.

A marvellous book outlining the horrors we’re capable of and the forgiveness we need to carry on.