Books with author James Norman Nordhoff

STATED FIRST PRINTING. Aug. 1962 Pocket Books MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (Pitcairn's Island: A Novel). Book Two in the Trilogy of the BOUNTY. The Great Epic of Survival at Sea! 'Men Against the Sea' is a novel based on true events. It tells how Captain William Bligh and eighteen members of his crew were set adrift in a twenty-three-foot open launch by the mutineers H.M.S. Bounty. With few weapons, little food and slim rations of drink, Bligh and his men sailed a distance of 3,618 miles across some of the most treacherous waters of the Pacific. - Amazon

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The 3 historical novels, solidly based on fact that made up the Bounty Trilogy have been called the greatest sea story of all time. Each is a complete and separate novel and this one is the second part of the narrative. The Bounty reached Tahiti and complete the first part of her mission in idyllic surroundings. Bot on the voyage home, the mutineers struck and took over, somewhere in the vicinity of the Friendly Islands. There, on the morning of April 28, 1789, Captiain Blight and 18 loyal members of hte bounty's crew were set adrift is a small open launch. This is the story of their voyage of 3600 miles across an uncharted ocean and one of the most stirring accounts in the history of man against the sea.

No Jacket. Book condition: Very Good. “Wyeth Edition.” Illustrations by NC Wyeth. Includes: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, & Pitcairn's Island. Little, Brown, and Company. 1948. Includes eleven vividly illustrated full page color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Beige cloth with gilt cover decoration and spine lettering, map endpapers, color front is of H.M.S. Bounty, 691 pages.