Description: This legendary account of a voyage around Cape Horn captures the majesty and misadventure of life at sea in the early nineteenth centuryIn 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.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Franklin, Pennsylvania
Signed: No
Publisher: Franklin Library
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1983
Language: English
Illustrator: E Boyd Smith
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition
Author: Richard Henry Dana
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Topic: Mystery, Thriller
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
