On the morning of April 28, 1789, the crew of His Majesty's armed transport, Bounty, mutinied against the tyrranical rule of the captain. Lieutenant William Bligh, nineteen men, including the captain was set adrift in mid-ocean to face the terrible prospect of travelling three thousand, six hundred miles over the turbulent Pacific in an open, unarmed boat only twenty-three feet long. Those who placed their lives in Bligh's hands however, had absolute faith in his qualities of leadership, his indomitable will, and his skill in navigation. This account, told in the words of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon is more than anything else, a monument to Captain Bligh.
Having been born in the seafaring town of Salem, Massachusetts, I, Ben Lathrop, had as my life's ambition the desire to ship before the mast. I was a lad of sixteen when in the year 1809, my took me to see his good friend, Captain Joseph Whidden, the master of a ship called The Island Princess.
A patriotic feline, Captain Cat springs out of bed whenever the bugle sounds and he has more stripes than any of the soldiers. But most of all, this young recruit and his best friend Pete know what it really takes to make the army a home—friendship.
Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a rich, elderly spinster, Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress, but doesn't say why. Poirot persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste. On arrival, they discover that she has died of natural causes. But Bob, Miss Arundell's wire-haired terrier, knows better. And so does Poirot. John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot, with Simon Williams as Captain Hastings.
Captain Cook: The Great Ocean Explorer (What's Their Story?)
Age 6 and up
James Cook grew up on a farm, but his secret dream was to be a sailor. He wanted to travel "as far as it was possible for man to go." James's three great voyages of discovery took him from Australia to the Arctic, further than anyone else had sailed before. His explorations filled in the last empty space on the map of the world.
