... and dug four golf bunkers and filled them with sand. Ernie began hitting practice shots over the oaks and round the bread-fruit trees. His game nourished. But already, he was a bona tide world-dass prodigy. At 14, he'd already won the World junior Ch ...

... offer to command HMS Bethia, which shortly after he arrived was renamed the Bounty, and set sail for Tahiti to collect bread fruit trees for the West Indies. They collected their cargo and left Tahiti on April 4, 1789. It was 24 days later that Fletcher ...

... 000 MARITIME SALE A 1792 first edition of William Bligh's 'A Voyage to the South Sea for the purpose of conveying the Bread- Fruit tree to the West Indies in his Majesty's Ship the Bounty' has sold for 16,000. Other travel books at Christie's South Kensington ...