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Two Years Before The Mast The Original Classic Edition
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher: Tebbo
Release Date : 2012-06
Two Years Before The Mast The Original Classic Edition written by Richard Henry Dana and has been published by Tebbo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with Fiction categories.
Why should you read this book? Yes, it is a classic. Yes, it documents the wonderful, adventurous time of the clipper ship. But thats not why you should read it. Richard Henry Dana must have been a most extraordinary man. While attending Harvard as a young man, his eyesight became weak and his health declined. He decided that the austere prescription of salt air and plain hard work would be the cure. Not many would give up comfort and privelege, but for two years, Dana served as a common sailor, given no special treatment as the gentleman he was, and lived in the forecastle of the Alert, eating the mess of salt beef and common hardtack, risking his life and serving under a captain crueler than most. Dana was able to write in such a way as to re-create the life on board a sailing ship, down to the smallest details and thats what makes this book so real and touching. You can feel the cold of Tierra del Fuego, taste the salt beef, and feel the wind and damp. Whats more amazing is that Danas carefully-kept journal was lost along with his other mementos of his voyage when he landed back on shore in Boston, due to some tragic carelessness of someone he entrusted with his chest of belongings. Yet he was able to recreate his voyage in loving detail and in some very excellent writing. Danas later life as a lawyer was far from happy, though he made some critical contributions to maritime law. He died a poor and disappointed man, but left us the richer with his book. I just re-read it again for the tenth time, and it is fresher than ever. Read it along side of Moby Dick. Its American literature and American history and culture at its very best.
Two Years Before The Mast
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-05-27
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 2018-05-27 with categories.
Two Years Before the Mast By Richard Henry Dana 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, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway) and being something of a non-conformist, left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim). He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, the same year of his admission to the bar. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Two Years Before the Mast, Two Years Before the Mast pdf, Two Years Before the Mast book, Richard Henry Dana books, Richard Henry Dan
Two Years Before The Mast
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
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 1895 with Sailors categories.
Two Years Before The Mast
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
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 1947 with categories.
"Two Years Before The Mast" is a wonderful, elegantly written adventure classic that is still enjoyable more than one hundred years after its original publication. This is Richard Henry Dana Jr. s account of his life as a common seaman aboard the brig the Pilgrim which set out from Boston on August 14, 1835 destined for California by way of the treacherous Cape Horn. Dana gives an engrossing, detailed account of the workings of the ship, the day-to-day routines of the deck hands, and the brutal shortcomings of inept, tyrannical officers. This author s edition includes a chapter written by Dana twenty-four years after his initial voyage where he revisits some of the people, places and vessels that he had encountered on his original journey.
Two Years Before The Mast
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Author : Richard H. Dana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-09
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard H. Dana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-09 with categories.
Two Years Before the Mast Volume 2By Richard H. DanaSailing to California from Boston around Cape Horn, Two Years Before the Mast is both an adventure and an eloquent account of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he escapes the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for the arduous voyage. The result is an astonishing book, filled with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail.We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Two Years Before The Mast Classic Reprint
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Author : RICHARD HENRY DANA. JR.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Two Years Before The Mast Classic Reprint 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 2022 with categories.
Two Years Before The Mast
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Fiction categories.
How I got along, I cannot now remember. I ``laid out'' on the yards and held on with all my strength. I could not have been of much service, for I remember having been sick several times before I left the topsail yard, making wild vomits into the black night, to leeward. Soon all was snug aloft, and we were again allowed to go below. This I did not consider much of a favor, for the confusion of everything below, and that inexpressible sickening smell, caused by the shaking up of bilge water in the hold, made the steerage but an indifferent refuge from the cold, wet decks. I had often read of the nautical experiences of others, but I felt as though there could be none worse than mine; for, in addition to every other evil, I could not but remember that this was only the first night of a two years' voyage. When we were on deck, we were not much better off, for we were continually ordered about by the officer, who said that it was good for us to be in motion. Yet anything was better than the horrible state of things below. I remember very well going to the hatchway and putting my head down, when I was oppressed by nausea, and always being relieved immediately. It was an effectual emetic.
Two Years Before The Mast
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Author : Jr. Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Two Years Before The Mast written by Jr. Richard Henry Dana and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXIII features the classic memoir of life on the high seas, Two Years Before the Mast, by American lawyer and activist RICHARD HENRY DANA JR. (1815-1882). No adventure tale, this is an expose of how poorly enlisted sailors were treated, which Dana learned firsthand on a two-year 1830s voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. First published in 1846, this volume also includes an appendix to the 1869 edition, "Twenty-Four Years After," in which Dana returns to California. Indeed, this work is important not only for its treatment of naval life but for its rare depiction of early California, both before and after the Gold Rush.
The Complete Two Years Before The Mast
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
Publisher: SeaWolf Press
Release Date : 2020-01-30
The Complete Two Years Before The Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and has been published by SeaWolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-30 with Travel 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.
Slavish Shore
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Author : Jeffrey L. Amestoy
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-08
Slavish Shore written by Jeffrey L. Amestoy and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer’s memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s determination to keep that vow.