| Title | : | Two Years before the Mast |
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| Author | : | Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Release | : | 1995-10-01 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | Two Years before the Mast | Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea. Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. Dana Point was named as a result of this journey. Drawing from his journals,Two Years before the Mastgives a vivid and detailed account, shrewdly observed and beautifully described, of a common sailor's wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time. This is a breathtaking true storyof adventure on the high seas. |
