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Charles Nordhoff

Born

in Erwitte, Germany

August 31, 1830

Died

July 14, 1901

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nordhoff_(...

Genre

Journalism

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This describes the 19th century journalist and author. For the 20th century novelist most famous for Mutiny on the Bounty, see Charles Bernard Nordhoff.

Charles Nordhoff was an American journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer.

He was born in Erwitte, Germany (Prussia) in 1830, and emigrated to the USA in 1845. He was educated in Cincinnati, and was for nine years at sea, in the navy and merchant service; from 1853 to 1857 in various newspaper offices; was then employed editorially by the Harpers (1861), and for the next ten years on the staff of the New York Evening Post.

From 1871 to 1873 Nordhoff travelled in California and visited Hawaii. He then became Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. His most widely known books ar ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 115 ratings · 19 reviews · 167 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Communistic Societies of the United States: Economic Social and Religious Utopias of the Nineteenth Century 3.61 avg rating — 57 ratings — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man-of-war Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy During a Voyage Around the World in a Ship of the Line 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1855 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Panne sèche: No more gas by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whaling and Fishing (Notable American Authors) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1856 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	California for Travellers and Settlers 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1872 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sailor life on Man of War and Merchant Vessel (1884) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1884 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028 by Charles Nordhoff (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), G.K. Chesterton (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Yankee Windjammers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light-houses of the United States in 1874 with Life in a Lighthouse, Life on the South Shoals Lightship & Heroism in the Lighthouse Service by Charles Nordhoff, Gustav Kobbé liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The Court: Had there been a very recent quarrel?
Mr. Fryer: The day before the mutiny, Mr. Bligh charged Christian with stealing his coconuts.”
― Charles Nordhoff, Mutiny on the Bounty

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