The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

IN Papeete, Tahiti, the literary-firm of Nordhoff & Hall prospers. There, tucked away in the Pacific, these two Americans have staked out their claim on the eighteenth century. The English Navy under Nelson is an open book to them; Polynesian society, as it once flourished on the islands, they know from twelve years’ residence; the behavior and thought of men under stress they have pictured with splendid fidelity. From such material they have created the two seafaring novels that bear their trade-mark, Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea.

Rumor has it that the third and concluding portion of the trilogy — the mysterious story of what happened on Pitcairn Island — will be ready for the press a year from now.