Papeete, Tahiti We spent a pleasant day in Tahiti visiting James Norman Hall’s home, Point Venus which is the site where Capt. Cook recorded the passage of Venus across the face of the sun in 1769, a local market, and later, watched people congregating near the ship where vendors set up stands selling all kinds of food. James Norman Hall wrote the Mutiny on the Bounty series. We learned that not only was he a writer, but also quite an army pilot, serving in three armies - French, Spanish, and American (with Eddie Rickenbacker). There is a room full of medals and military memorabilia. His son was famous in his own right as a cinematographer, winning Oscars for such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Road to Perdition. James Hall knew Zane Grey,
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