Man-of-War Life
Like many a restless teenager before him, Charles Nordhoff craved excitement and in 1844, when barely 14, he managed to talk his way into the US Navy. A bookish lad who had been apprenticed to a printer, Nordhoff was better educated than most of his fellow seamen, and was well equipped to describe what became a three-year round-the-world adventure. He was lucky in his ship, USS Columbus, a large 74-gun ship of the line that had been chosen to undertake a diplomatic mission to China, and then to Japan, in an abortive attempt to open the latter to American trade. In the course of this voyage, Nordhoff was to see many countries of south-east Asi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4738-2250-4
- EAN: 9781473822504
- Produktnummer: 22578694
- Verlag: Seaforth Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 196 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 657 KB
Über den Autor
Charles Nordhoff (1 February 1887 - 10 April 1947) and James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 - 5 July 1951) collaborated on a large number of written works, notably their Bounty trilogy, accounting the tale of the mutiny on board the HMS Bounty and its aftermath, which included Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island.
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