Oceans, Oceanography, Hurricanes Icebergs Nordhoff cm79

Oriental Rug Review/Asian trade is pleased to offer an original article from Harper's Magazine. "Sea and Shore," by Charles Nordhoff. Original article from Harper's Magazine, Vol.LXVI, April, 1873, 19pp, (loose), 22 Illustrations, 6 1/4"x9 1/2".

About the Author:

Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) 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 traveled in California and visited Hawaii. He then became Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. His most widely known books are Communistic Societies of The United States, and California for Health, Pleasure and Residence. He was a New York journalist for many years. Nordhoff died in California in July, 1901. He was the father of Walter Nordhoff, author of The Journey of the Flame penned under the name "Antonio de Fierro Blanco". He was the grandfather of Charles Bernard Nordhoff, co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty.

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