QUOTE : There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. <br /><br /><br />John Boyne <br /><br />April 28, 1789: The real-life mutiny that inspired John Boyne's novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, took place aboard the HMS Bounty 224 years ago today. Half the ship's crew, seduced by several months of good life on Tahiti, rose up against Captain William Bligh. Some of the mutineers' descendants still live on Pitcairn Island