Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative

Richard Henry Dana

311 pages first pub 1840 (editions)

nonfiction classics history travel reflective slow-paced
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n 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., was just nineteen years old when he abandoned his life as a Harvard student to enlist as a seaman. Here is the awe-inspiring account of his travels from Boston, around Cape Horn, and to the California coast -- an a...

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