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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
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Release Date : 1871
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Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
language : en
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Release Date : 1911
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Sailors categories.
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with History categories.
In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman, resulting in this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, plus fascinating historical details.
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Author : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: SeaWolf Press
Release Date : 2021-07-28
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
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Release Date : 2013-08-26
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Two Years Before the MastRichard Henry DanaBrand New and Complete Authors EditionTwo Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834. 'In the winter of 1879-80 I sailed round Cape Horn in a full-rigged ship from New York to California. At the latter place I visited the scenes of ``Two Years Before the Mast.'' At the old town of San Diego I met Jack Stewart, my father's old shipmate, and as we were looking at the dreary landscape and the forlorn adobe houses and talking of California of the thirties, he burst out into an encomium of the accuracy and fidelity to details of my father's book. He said, ``I have read it again and again. It all comes back to me, everything just as it happened. The seamanship is perfect.'' And then as if to emphasize it all, with the exception that proves the rule, he detailed one slight case where he thought my father was at fault,—-a detail so slight that I now forget what it is. In reading the Log kept by the discharged mate, Amerzeen, on the return trip in the Alert, I find that every incident there recorded, from running aground at the start at San Diego Harbor, through the perilous icebergs round the Horn, the St. Elmo's fire, the scurvy of the crew and the small matters like the painting of the vessel, to the final sail up Boston Harbor, confirms my father's record. His former shipmate, the late B. G. Stimson, a distinguished citizen of Detroit, said the account of the flogging was far from an exaggeration, and Captain Faucon of the Alert also during his lifetime frequently confirmed all that came under his observation. Such truth in the author demands truth in illustration, and I have cooperated with the publishers in securing a painting of the Alert under full sail and other illustrations, both colored and in pen and ink, faithful to the text in every detail….'
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-04-04
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with categories.
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Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Seafaring life categories.
Two Years Before the Mast, Dana's account of his passage as a common seaman from Boston around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life: the day-to-day routines and conversations, the sailors who manned the ship, the brutality of incompetent officers, and the style of life in the newly emerging coastal towns of California. As Thomas Philbrick discusses in his introduction, the public's sympathy for the plight of mariners, which was aroused by the book, eventually faded, but Two Years Before the Mast forever changed readers' romanticized perceptions of life at sea and inaugurated a lasting tradition of realism and concern for human values. Book jacket.
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Author : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-25
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-25 with categories.
Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946. The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors, in the forecastle, in the front of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes. He later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. In the book, which takes place between 1834 and 1836, Dana gives a vivid account of "the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is." He sails from Boston to South America and around Cape Horn to California. Dana's ship was on a voyage to trade goods from the United States for the Mexican colonial Californian California missions' and ranchos' cow hides. They traded at the ports in San Diego Bay, San Pedro Bay, Santa Barbara Channel, Monterey Bay, and San Francisco Bay. Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen.
Two Years Before The Mast A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea
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Author : R. H. Dana
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Two Years Before The Mast A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea written by R. H. Dana and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book is a fascinating and detailed chronicle of over two years spent in the American merchant service during the early 1800s. Written as a journal, it depicts the adventures and vicissitudes of a young sailor travelling from Boston around Cape Horn and on to the west coast of North America. Brought to life with a vividness that belies its age, “Two Years Before the Mast” is highly recommended for lovers of adventure writing and those with an interest in nautical history. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
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Author : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-12
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.