Showing posts with label James Norman Hall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Norman Hall. Show all posts

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Mutiny on the Bounty by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff

Opening line:

If it be true that a man’s useful life is over on the day when his thoughts begin to dwell in the past, then I have served little purpose in living since my retirement from His Majesty’s Navy fifteen years ago.