AGE OF SAIL
"Men Against the Sea" by Charles Nordhoff
& James Norman Hall 
This is Book II of the Bounty Trilogy.
This is the fictionalized account of the voyage of the launch from the Bounty containing Captain Bligh and 18 of his crew in a small open boat (23 feet by 6 feet 9 inches). The men spent 42 days at sea and crossed over 3600 miles of ocean from Tafoa in the Tonga Island Group(175 degrees East, 20 degrees South) to Kapang on the Island of Timour (123 degrees E, 10 degrees S). They sailed through the Fiji Islands, New Hebrides, NW Australian coast, through the Torres Strait, and across the Arafure and Timor Seas to reach the Dutch settlement
The men faced incredible hardship, and only the iron hand and exceptional seamanship of Bligh saved them. They were subjected to storms and heavy seas, boiling sun, thirst, starvation, and hostile natives. They had no weapons other than a few cutlasses for protection. The successful voyage was an amazing accomplishment.
Reviewed by Kenneth S. Smith, 8 December 1999
Available from numerous publishers over the years
