Word: nordhoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AGAINST THE SEA?Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall?Little, Brown...
PITCAIRN'S ISLAND-Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall-Little, Brown...
...wrecks belong to the salvager. Few readers of 1954 would protest the claim of Salvagers Nordhoff & Hall to the Bounty, beached by mutineers on Pitcairn's Island in 1789. Others had been there before them, but Authors Nordhoff & Hall did more than strip the wreck of what was left. Bit by bit they salvaged or reconstructed every piece of the Bounty's history. Last week they finished the long job: in Pitcairn's Island they gave the third and final chapter of this magnificent true story of the sea. (Others: Mutiny on the Bounty-TIME...
...their 14 years in Tahiti, Nordhoff & Hall had been over all the ground and much of the sea once traveled by the Bounty's crew, had long intended to take a trip to lonely Pitcairn Island, the Bounty's last port of call. But when chance offered, something always turned up to prevent their going. Last summer, when he heard of a schooner which was to touch there, Hall decided to go even though Nordhoff could not accompany him. The Tale of a Shipwreck, a quiet, rambling narrative that tells not only of his voyage and shipwreck...
...Author. James Norman Hall, native of Iowa, enlisted in Kitchener's First Hundred Thousand at the outbreak of the War, went to France in 1915 as a machine-gunner. Transferred to the Lafayette Escadrille in 1917. Hall met there Charles Nordhoff of Philadelphia, Mexico and California, discovered a mutual enthusiasm for the history of H. M. S. Bounty. Shot down behind the German lines in the spring of 1918, Hall spent the last months of the War as a prisoner. After the Armistice he collaborated with Nordhoff on a history of the Lafayette Escadrille. Both were tired...