They went to Tahiti in the Society Islands for research and inspiration, and ended up staying, Nordhoff for twenty years, Hall for life.
In 1874, the valley's first settlement was named Nordhoff in honor of an east coast journalist Charles Nordhoff who had publicized this special area.
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The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie (Men Without Country) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
In Tahiti, Frisbie (dubbed: “Ropati,” a phonetic approximation of “Robert” en: Writer) met Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, well-known co-authors of the Mutiny on the Bounty series.