To see how one family worked out their idea of living in paradise, head to the James Norman Hall Museum (La Maison de James Norman Hall). Hall was the coauthor of the book Mutiny on the Bounty, and with the book’s bounty, he bought a swath of Tahitian beach and built his dream house. Captain Bligh had been sent to Tahiti to collect breadfruit to be transplanted in the West Indies where it was hoped it would prosper as a food source for sugar plantation workers, so don’t miss the breadfruit trees planted here. (If you’ve not tried the fruit, it tastes like a cross between a grapefruit and a pineapple. Delicious.)
James Norman Hall¥s house. Adventurer, soldier, highly decorated pursuit pilot, famous author, essayist and poet, James Norman Hall wrote ¥Mutiny on the Bounty¥. Arue village, Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia
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James Norman Hall¥s house. Adventurer, soldier, highly decorated pursuit pilot, famous author, essayist and poet, James Norman Hall wrote ¥Mutiny on the Bounty¥. Arue village, Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia
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James Norman Hall’s Home
To see how one family worked out their idea of living in paradise, head to the James Norman Hall Museum (La Maison de James Norman Hall). Hall was the coauthor of the book Mutiny on the Bounty, and with the book’s bounty, he bought a swath of Tahitian beach and built his dream house. Captain Bligh had been sent to Tahiti to collect breadfruit to be transplanted in the West Indies where it was hoped it would prosper as a food source for sugar plantation workers, so don’t miss the breadfruit trees planted here. (If you’ve not tried the fruit, it tastes like a cross between a grapefruit and a pineapple. Delicious.)
