Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

316 pages first pub 1840 (editions)

nonfiction classics history travel reflective slow-paced
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Richard Henry Dana dropped out of school and became an ordinary deckhand on the brig Pilgrim. The perilous journey from Boston, begun in 1834, took the ailing yet determined youth past Cape Horn and around the Americas, concluding in the Mexican t...

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