Word: nordhoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tahiti at the age of 33 to spend the rest of his life. That was in 1920. He is still there, still interested in Sir John Barrow's The Mutiny of the Bounty. Thousands of U. S. readers who never heard of Sir John Barrow have pored over Nordhoff & Hall's rewriting of the story (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea), are looking forward to their final instalment on the fate of the mutineers who settled Pitcairn Island...
...friend, Charles Nordhoff, and I, while appreciating the friendly notice of our book, Men Against the Sea, which appeared in the Jan. 15 issue of TIME, rather resent some of the distinctions wished upon us by your reviewer. After giving various intimate details with respect to our private lives (which would appear to have little to do with the merits or demerits of our book), the reviewer proceeds: "Both rebuffed globe-girdling Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks when he tried to hire them for small parts in his Mr. Robinson Crusoe. Both have been made (by decree of Governor Léonce...
...surprise and indignation the second fiction must occasion among the warriors of the Kilyan tribe, all of whom are, of course, faithful subscribers to TIME. If these savages come down from whatever wilds they may inhabit for the purpose of denying, with spears and war-clubs, that Nordhoff and myself are in any way affiliated with their tribe, our blood will be upon the heads of the united staff of TIME. And may you never be able to wash...
...AGAINST THE SEA-Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall-Little, Brown...
...neat than fiction, occasionally turns up art readymade. Such a made-to-order true story is the tale of the Bounty, 18th Century British brig whose voyage to Tahiti and back was cut short in the Pacific by mutiny. In Mutiny on the Bounty (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932) Authors Nordhoff & Hall told the first part of the tale. Men against the Sea is a straightforward but circumstantial account of what happened to Captain Bligh and his men when the mutineers cast them off in an open boat in the mid-Pacific. (The final part, Pitcairn's Island, will...