In a pretty courtyard garden next to Lambeth Palace one finds a forlorn singular tomb, the final resting place of a denigrated British hero.
Captain William Bligh RN has fascinated historians, Hollywood, TV the press and the public for over two hundred years. Now we have the other story which had to be told… The Gay version.. Beyond The Capes”
Through the eyes of the main romantic couple, Nathan and Jeremy, the reader is entwined by colonial subterfuge, political scandal and skullduggery from the great lakes of upper Canada to Norfolk Island.
Beyond the capes does not dwell on the Bounty incident but looks closely at the other three mutinies that William Bligh was embroiled in.