Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

334 pages first pub 1840 (editions)

nonfiction classics history travel reflective slow-paced
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Born into a comfortable and affluent New England family, Richard Henry Dana (who once studied under the great Ralph Waldo Emerson) disconcertingly took to the high seas in 1834 as a common sailor, an experience that would color his classic memoir ...

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