A. Roger Ekirch is a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the award-winning author of At Day's Close and Birthright. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia.
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The extraordinary story of the mutiny aboard the frigate HMS Hermione in 1797 (eight years after the mutiny on the Bounty)-the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy, that led to the extradition from America, and the hanging by the British, of t... SEE MORE