Charles Nordhoff

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Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887 - 1947) was a U.S. (English-born) novelist and traveler. He was a collaborator with James Norman Hall.

He was the author with Hall of The Mutiny on the Bounty among other books. The Nordhoff/Hall book was the source for the movie of the same name. Subsequent authors have presented a different, well researched view of the actual events of the mutiny, in which the mutiny results not from mal-treatment by Captain Bligh, but by the lure of South Pacific life to the ship's crew.

Charles Nordhoff's father was Walter Nordhoff, author of The Journey of the Flame penned under the name "Antonio de Fierro Blano".

Charles Bernard Nordhoff's grandfather was Charles Nordhoff, born in Erwitte, Germany in 1835, emigrated to the USA in 1845, also an author. His most widely known books are Communistic Societies of The United States, and California for Health, Pleasure and Residence. He was a New York journalist for many years and in one article described the partial scalping of Zach Stewart's great grandfather.

Nordhoff is the namesake of a street in the San Fernando Valley.

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