James Norman Hall

Finally returning from the horrors of World War I, James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow their dream of touring the South Pacific. A fascinating non-fiction account of two americans’ meeting with life in French Polynesia in the late 1910s, "Faery Lands of the South Seas" is classic adventure travel at its best.

Audiobook High Adventure written by James Norman Hall. For pilots in the First World War even getting through training was a matter of survival. Ashamed that the US was not yet in the war, American author James Norman Hall volunteered to fly for an American unit that fought for France, and his account was published while he was held captive in a German POW camp.