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The Complete Two Years Before the Mast: Illustr...
The Complete Two Years Before the Mast: Illustr...
Two Years Before The Mast
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight,...
Two Years Before the Mast (Signet Classics)
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana...
The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast is a classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works like Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As he follows Richard Henry Dana Jr. (a Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America (encountering...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative...
Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr's captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. Initially an attempt to remedy the author's eye fatigue, the two-year voyage from Boston to California had a transformative effect...
The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast
A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana's classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard...
The Complete Two Years Before the Mast: Illustr...
Two Years Before the Mast - A Sailor's Life at Sea
A true American classic adventure book, Two Years Before the Mast is the true story written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. about his time at sea as a common sailor. Born into a wealthy New England family in 1815, Dana had a youthful love of adventure. After suffering a severe attack...
Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative...
In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life- the day-to-day...
Two Years Before the Mast (Westvaco Corporation...
Two Years Before The Mast
Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Ma...
This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span twenty-five years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam. Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age nineteen and sailed from...
Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast was written by Richard Henry Dana after his 2 year sea voyage around Cape Horn, South America. Published in 1840, it is considered an American classic.
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Two Years Before The Mast
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative...
Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana dropped out of school and became an ordinary deckhand on the brig Pilgrim. The perilous journey from Boston, begun in 1834, took the ailing yet determined youth past Cape Horn and around the Americas, concluding in the Mexican territory California. This expedition...
Two Years Before the Mast
First published in 1840, "Two Years Before the Mast" is the true story of Richard Henry Dana's voyage aboard the merchant vessel the "Pilgrim" on a trip around Cape Horn during the years 1834 to 1836. Dana was a student at Harvard when a case of the measles affected his vision...
Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast
Born into a comfortable and affluent New England family, Richard Henry Dana (who once studied under the great Ralph Waldo Emerson) disconcertingly took to the high seas in 1834 as a common sailor, an experience that would color his classic memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Despite...
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