Faery Lands of the South Seas [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Hall, James Norman; Nordhoff, Charles Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6069832930 ISBN 13: 9786069832936

Verlag: SC Active Business Development SRL, 2017

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Páginas: 252 Géneros: 12:FJ:Adventure 12:FC:Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Sinopsis: Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They had a highly successful literary partnership that lasted nearly 30 year and produced several worldwide bestsellers. , The authors of the ",Mutiny on the Bounty", trilogy present a travelogue look at French Polynesia in the 1920',s. Although non-fiction, it relates the stories and lifestyles of natives, scalawags, and (yes) imperialists in a very readable and highly entertaining style. While both authors provide individual vignettes of life in the high islands and low-island archipelagos, Charles Nordhoff seems to have a stronger sense of storytelling and the word-painting imagery of palm trees, sunsets, and schooners than James Norman Hall. Hall',s writing, here, is a bit more linear and factual whereas Nordhoff',s work is more evocative. Perhaps that is why they were such good collaborators in their ',Bounty', trilogy._,

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Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They had a highly successful literary partnership that lasted nearly 30 year and produced several worldwide bestsellers. 
The authors of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" trilogy present a travelogue look at French Polynesia in the 1920's. Although non-fiction, it relates the stories and lifestyles of natives, scalawags, and (yes) imperialists in a very readable and highly entertaining style. While both authors provide individual vignettes of life in the high islands and low-island archipelagos, Charles Nordhoff seems to have a stronger sense of storytelling and the word-painting imagery of palm trees, sunsets, and schooners than James Norman Hall. Hall's writing, here, is a bit more linear and factual whereas Nordhoff's work is more evocative. Perhaps that is why they were such good collaborators in their 'Bounty' trilogy.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: SC Active Business Development SRL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 6069832930
• ISBN 13: 9786069832936
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252