Nordhoff, Charles
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Books
The High Barbaree
Story of the dream of a young pilot whose plane is wrecked over the Pacific Ocean.
Botany bay
The story of Hugh Tallant, highwayman and the infamous penal colony established in Australia in 1788.
The Bounty trilogy, comprising the three volumes, "Mutiny on the Bounty," "Men against the sea," & "Pitcairn's island,"
The hurricane
A French medical officer describes the events and heroism during a hurricane on a Polynesian island.
Men against the sea
Captain Bligh of the Bounty and the eighteen loyal men who stay with him when the rest of his embittered crew rises in mutiny against Bligh, are cast out to sea.
Mutiny on the Bounty
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a small open boat. In one of history's great feats of seamanship, Bligh navigated this tiny vessel for 3618 nautical miles to Timor. Fletcher Christian and the mutineers sailed back to Tahiti, where most remained and were later tried for mutiny. But Christian, along with eight fellow mutineers and some Tahitian men and women, sailed off into the unknown, eventually discovering the isolated Pitcairn Island - at the time not even marked on British maps - and settling there. This astonishing story is historical adventure at its very best, encompassing the mutiny, Bligh's monumental achievement in navigating to safety, and Fletcher Christian and the mutineers' own epic journey from the sensual paradise of Tahiti to the outpost of Pitcairn Island. The mutineers' descendants live on Pitcairn to this day, amid swirling stories and rumours of past sexual transgressions and present-day repercussions. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is a sprawling, dramatic tale of intrigue, bravery and sheer boldness, told with the accuracy of historical detail and total command of story that are Peter FitzSimons' trademarks.
Falcons of France
Just read it stahigrt through. Too embarrassed to link to any of my own sites. Heh.From the first read, my estimation is I could extract a good, detailed blog post from each full page, 30 to 40 articles for sure. Part of my audience is marketers in Blogistan, and they need this material desperately, explained in a way they can understand.Nice reference to Katamari and Mars. I noted a few others, but those stand out. From the perspective of curated content, the book is worth the purchase price just for the reference list. Probably just for the Acknowledgements, as I now have a point of entry: who I need to Google up.Thanks!
Pitcairn's island
The third and climactic volume of The Bounty Trilogy, Pitcairn's Island, chronicles the fate of Christian, the mutineers, and a handful of Tahitians who find refuge on the loneliest island in the Pacific. There they live out a tragedy of drunkenness, betrayal, murder, and vengeance, leaving only one Englishman alive to restore the peace, which he does by returning to the precepts in the Bounty's Bible.
The fledgling
Vitorina's escort from Lisbon to London wore a cloak of respectability which convinced the child's father and aunts, but even before the ten-year-old girl had made her disconcerting discovery of his theft from the rich, private chapel of her home, she had begun to take his measure. Circumstances, plus some contrivance on her own part, enabled the youngster to shake him off. Alone, she reached Victoria and the warm if belated welcome of her father's distant cousin and ex-fiancee, Philippa. How the gold statuette of St. Christopher had been stolen and how it reached Portugal again, how Philippa changed at the eleventh hour from one bridegroom to another and how, above all, Vitorina throve on her first taste of freedom and found her father really cared about her after all is interwoven into a delightful, readable story.