The G-Note Road
In Paris in 1919, JAMES NORMAN HALL,who had served as a machine gunner in “Kitchener’s Mob” and later as a pursuit pilot, collaborated with his friend Charles Nordhoff in writing the official history of the Lafayette Escadrille. This was the beginning of a literary partnership unique in American letters, which produced during their twenty rears residence in Tahiti a number of notable narratives of the sea, including Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn’s Island, and The Hurricane. “The dream of the G-Note Road,”Hall wrote us, “is no fiction. It has had an extraordinary influence on my life from the days of my childhood.”