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Book Synopsis Slavish Shore by : Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Download or read book Slavish Shore written by Jeffrey L. Amestoy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer’s memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s determination to keep that vow.
Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast by : Richard Henry Dana
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Cuba and Back by : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Download or read book To Cuba and Back written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Seaman's Friend by : Richard Henry Dana, Jr
Download or read book The Seaman's Friend written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages (LOA #161) by : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Download or read book Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages (LOA #161) written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam." "Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines and hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness and brutality of merchant ship captains and officers, and the beauty and danger of the southern oceans in winter. Included in an appendix is "Twenty-Four Years After" (1869), in which Dana describes his return to California in 1859-1860 and the immense changes brought about by American annexation, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, and the growing commerce of "a new world, the awakened Pacific."" "Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate. To Cuba and Back (1859) is his account of his trip, during which he toured Havana and a sugar plantation; attended a bullfight; visited churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons; and investigated the impact on Cuban society of slavery and autocratic Spanish rule." "Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 records the 14-month circumnavigation that took Dana to California, Hawaii, China, Japan, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. The journal provides vignettes of frontier life in California, missionary influence in Hawaii, the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War on China, and the opening of Japan to the West, while capturing the transition from the age of sail to the faster, smaller world created by the steamship and the telegraph."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ... Speeches in Stirring Times, and Letters to a Son by : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Download or read book Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ... Speeches in Stirring Times, and Letters to a Son written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast by : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Richard Henry Dana, Jr by : Robert L. Gale
Download or read book Richard Henry Dana, Jr written by Robert L. Gale and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates all the major events of Dana's life and gives a detailed evaluation of his writings.
Book Synopsis The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr by : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Download or read book The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the social, professional, political and literary worlds of which Richard Henry Dana was a prominent participant, along with extensive observations from his voyage around the world in 1859 and other travels.
Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast by : Richard Henry Dana
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While attending Harvard as a young man, Richard Dana's eyesight became weak and his health declined. He decided that the austere prescription of salt air and plain hard work would be the cure. Not many would give up comfort and privilege, but for two years, Dana served as a common sailor, given no special treatment as the gentleman he was, and lived in the forecastle of the Alert, eating the mess of salt beef and common hardtack, risking his life and serving under a captain crueler than most. Dana was able to write in such a way as to re-create the life on board a sailing ship, down to the smallest details and that's what makes this book so real and touching. You can feel the cold of Tierra del Fuego, taste the salt beef, and feel the wind and damp. What's more amazing is that Dana's carefully-kept journal was lost along with his other mementos of his voyage when he landed back on shore in Boston, due to some tragic carelessness of someone he entrusted with his chest of belongings. Yet he was able to recreate his voyage in vivid detail and in some very excellent writing. Dana's later life as a lawyer was far from happy, though he made some critical contributions to maritime law. He died a poor and disappointed man, but left us the richer with his book.
Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast by : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1815-1882 by : Samuel Shapiro
Download or read book Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1815-1882 written by Samuel Shapiro and published by [East Lansing] : Michigan University Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Cuba and Back by : Richard Henry Dana
Download or read book To Cuba and Back written by Richard Henry Dana and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a great background to the social conditions in 19th century Cuba which led to the revolution in 1959. It tells about Cuba of 1887. At the time, Cuba was heavily dependent on Spain, did not have self-rule but had high taxes to support the bureaucracy sent out from Spain to rule the island. It is very interesting from a historical perspective. Also, it allows drawing analogies with the current state of things. Many researchers recommend this book as a key to better understanding the policy of the country today.
Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast by : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.While an undergraduate at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840.....Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 - January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen.Dana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 1, 1815 into a family that had settled in colonial America in 1640, counting Anne Bradstreet among its ancestors.His father was the poet and critic Richard Henry Dana Sr. As a boy, Dana studied in Cambridgeport under a strict schoolmaster named Samuel Barrett, alongside fellow Cambridge native and future writer James Russell Lowell.Barrett was infamous as a disciplinarian who punished his students for any infraction by flogging. He also often pulled students by their ears and, on one such occasion, nearly pulled Dana's ear off, causing the boy's father to protest enough that the practice was abolished.......
Book Synopsis Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: ... Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son by : Richard Henry Dana
Download or read book Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: ... Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast by : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.
Book Synopsis The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr by : Richard Henry Dana
Download or read book The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the social, professional, political and literary worlds of which Richard henry Dana was a prominent participant, along with extensive observations from his voyage around the world in 1859 and other travels.
