Two Years Before the Mast
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[Place of publication not identified] : Open Road Media, 2015.
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In this nineteenth-century nautical memoir, a Harvard man sails around the tip of South America to California--and returns with this classic tale of adventure. In 1834, nineteen-year-old Richard Henry Dana left Harvard University to enlist as a deckhand on a brig sailing from Boston to the California coast. For the next two years, he recorded the terrifying storms, awe-inspiring beauty, and dreadful hardships of the journey in a diary he would later expand into this riveting memoir of “the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is.” Dana spares no detail in portraying the wretched conditions he endured and the cruelty of the ship’s captain, but he also paints vivid, unforgettable pictures of natural wonders such as icebergs and schools of migrating whales. His descriptions of the missions and presidios of pre--Gold Rush California captured the imagination of the country when the book was first published in 1840, and they serve as valuable historical documentation to this day. An instant classic and inspiration for contemporaries such as Herman Melville, Two Years Before the Mast is one of the most remarkable and influential adventure stories in American literature. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Dana, R. H. (2015). Two Years Before the Mast . Open Road Media.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dana, Richard Henry. 2015. Two Years Before the Mast. Open Road Media.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast Open Road Media, 2015.

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Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast Open Road Media, 2015.

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