Two Years Before the Mast (Classics)

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Children's Books

P.F. Collier, 1967 ex convent lib. 62nd printing (Harvard Classics)

Seaman's Friend: A Treatise on Practical Seamanship (Maritime History)

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Macdonald & J

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea

The narrative of the author's journey from Boston around the Cape Horn and landing at a port in the western coast of the United States.

History

Military

Signet Classics

A young man tells of his experiences as a common sailor and provides a realistic portrait of the brutal life of nineteenthcentury seamen. Reprint.

Two Years Before the Mast

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

New American Library

In 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., a 19-year-old Harvard University student from a wealthy upper-class family, left his studies and took a job, as a common sailor, aboard the brig, Pilgrim. Two Years Before the Mast - The Seafaring Adventure of Richard Henry Dana Jr. 1834-1836, details the true account of Dana's voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California, his stay upon the California Coast and his passage back aboard the Alert. His epic tale, along with beautifully illustrated sketches, brings to life the lives of the seamen; their experiences, struggles, triumphs, friendships, fears, humor and humanity, while on the sea and along the California Coast in the 1830's.

Two Years Before the Mast (Adapted By Ocean Institute)

Ocean Institute

In 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., left the comforts of genteel Boston to endure the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class.

Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea (TheWorld's Best Readinng)

Travel

South America

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1853 edition by G. Routledge &amp; Co., London.

Two Years before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea

LGBTQ+ Books

Adamant Media Corporation

Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Books In Motion

A sailor's observation of a younger, wilder California
 In this excerpt from Richard Henry Dana's around-the-Horn masterpiece, Two Years Before the Mast, we experience the wonder Dana felt when beholding the California coast for the first time, in 1835:
 ''[T]here was a grandeur in everything around, which gave a solemnity to the scene, a silence and solitariness which affected every part! Not a human being but ourselves for miles, and no sound heard but the pulsations of the great Pacific!''
 The passages taken from Two Years Before the Mast and compiled here reveal what California was like before the gold rush. The heavily forested San Francisco Bay Area is a fabulous place to collect firewood for the galley stoves. Monterey, with its whitewashed adobes, is more picturesque than Santa Barbara, where the adobes ''are mostly left of a mud color.'' Interestingly, San Pedro (Port of Los Angeles) is ''universally called the hell of California.''
 This pocket-sized book aims to zero in on Dana's insightful descriptions of pre-American California. His eyewitness observations of a land vibrant with commerce yet largely undeveloped will appeal to anyone interested in the many incarnations of this state.

Yankee in Mexican California, A, 1834-1836

Americas

Heyday

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