Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day when the sea went down they salvaged most of their stores. Hall, tempted by Timoe's isolation to make a long-planned "experiment in solitude," thought of staying there six months, then thought better of it, went with the first boatload to Mangareva, thence home to Tahiti. His notes on Pitcairn Island, his shipwrecked volume of the Encyclopedia, went with...
Mostly because he had decided that the Western World was too much with him, but partly because in 1916 he picked up a certain book in a Paris bookshop, James Norman Hall went to 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...
...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...
...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 of the U. S., went to look for peace & quiet in the South Seas, spent a year visiting various islands, finally decided on Tahiti, where they settled permanently, married native women. Since then they have had between them six children, a dozen books, four of them collaborations...
JAMES NORMAN HALL Tahiti, French Oceania...