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I kamp med havet [At War with the Sea]

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Det er måske den mest enestående sørejse i søfartens historie, som kaptajn William Bligh gennemførte, da han i 1789 efter mytteriet på hans skib H.M.S. Bounty sammen med 18 besætningsmedlemmer blev efterladt midt ude på Stillehavet i en åben båd. I I kamp med havet er det underlæge Thomas Ledward, der beretter, hvordan kaptajn Bligh førte Bountys lille, ubevæbnede og overlæssede barkasse 4000 miles fra Venskabsøerne til Timor. I 41 spændingsfyldte døgn må de 19 mænd kæmpe mod vilde stammer, sol, storme, sult og tørst, mens de forsøger at holde modet oppe. Vind, vejr og begivenheder er hentet fra kaptajn Blighs egen logbog, hvor han ganske kort har givet en beskrivelse af hver enkelt dag. Beretningen om disse mænds kamp og trængsler er et uforglemmeligt epos om menneskelig vilje og udholdenhed, om en af de mest fantastiske sørejser, der nogensinde er foretaget.

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Published September 13, 2017

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Charles Nordhoff

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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 are Northern California, Oregon and the Sandwich Islands (1874), The Communistic Societies of the United States (1857) and God and the Future Life (1881).

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