The complete online text of Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff.

Charles Bernard Nordhoff, alone and in collaboration with James Norman Hall, drew from experiences in California, in France during World War I, and in the South Seas as well as from historical events and native myths to produce successful and popular adv...

A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, & Around the World in the Years 1826-1829. By Auguste Duhaut-Cilly Translated and edited by August Fruge and Neal Harlow. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. xxxii, 254. $29.95.) The eyewitness accounts of visitors and...

WHO: Eric Meyers, 45, and his daughter, Sophie, 15, of Belmont WHERE: Oregon and California WHEN: Two weeks in August WHY : "I have to take the blame for it," Eric said of his plan to take his daughter on a...