A rest of the story account of the famous HMS Bounty mutineers who parted ways with Captain Bligh and company, The Lonely Island follows the mutineers to a remote, uninhabited island where they hope to finish their days in peace and quiet. For more than twenty years they remained undiscovered on Pitcairn's Island, far off the beaten sailing routes of ships at sea. The Lonely Island, accordingly to Ballantyne, is essentially a true story the merest spider web of fiction having been employed to bind it together. But, when God chooses to work in men's hearts, the change is remarkable.