Two Years Before the Mast

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Two Years Before the Mast
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Literature

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Dana
Edition year 1986
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Ian Ribbons
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 342
Dimensions 22.8 × 15.9 cm

Edition details

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Dana. Introduction by Mervyn Horder. 30 drawings by Ian Ribbons. Bound in dark brown cloth with an oval paper cover-label printed in brown. Endleaves printed with a ship in brown. Pale brown slipcase. 22.8x15.9cm. 342pp.

About the book

Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s Two Years Before the Mast is a classic firsthand account of life at sea during the nineteenth century. Dana left his studies at Harvard and joined a merchant vessel as an ordinary sailor, travelling from Boston around Cape Horn to the coast of California. His narrative describes storms, exhausting labour, harsh discipline and the everyday routines of sailors with unusual honesty. It also provides a valuable portrait of California before the Gold Rush, making the book both an adventure narrative and an important historical record of maritime life.

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