Author:Charles Nordhoff

Charles Nordhoff
(1830–1901)

Charles Nordhoff

Works

As author

• Man-of-War Life: a Boy's Experience in the U. S. Navy, largely autobiographical (Cincinnati, 1855)
• The Merchant Vessel (1855)
• Whaling and Fishing (1855; new edition, 1903)
• Nine Years as a Sailor (1857)
• Stories from the Island World (New York, 1857)
• Secession Is Rebellion: the Union Indissoluble (1860)
• The Freedmen of South Carolina: Some Account of their Appearance, Character, Condition, and Customs (1863)
• America for Free Working Men! (1865)
• Cape Cod and All Along Shore, a collection of stories (1868)
• California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence (1873)
• Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (1874) (external scan)
• Politics for Young Americans (1875) Later adopted as a school textbook, Nordhoff's Politics
• The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
• The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875 (1876)
• God and the Future Life (1881)
• A Guide to California, the Golden State (1883)
• The merchant vessel - a sailor boy's voyages around the world (1884)
• Peninsular California (1888)

As editor

• Practical Landscape Gardening, editor (Cincinnati, 1855)

Works about Nordhoff

• "Nordhoff, Charles," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Nordhoff, Charles," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
• "Nordhoff, Charles," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Nordhoff, Charles," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)