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Author : Richard Henry Dana
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Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
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:
Author : Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088190
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
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.
Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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Total Pages : 610 pages
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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 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.
Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
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Author : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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ISBN 13 : 9781523998685
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry DanaTwo 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 starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946. The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors - in the forecastle, in the front of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes; he later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. Dana did not set out to write Two Years Before the Mast as a sea adventure, but to highlight how poorly common sailors were treated on ships. It quickly became a best seller.
Author : Richard Henry Dana
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
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Total Pages : 490 pages
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ISBN 13 : 9781521891148
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (911 download)
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Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297753X
Total Pages : 418 pages
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Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 161219785X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
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Publisher : Heyday Books
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Total Pages : 334 pages
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720350378
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Years Before the Mast By Richard Henry Dana Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway) and being something of a non-conformist, 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, the same year of his admission to the bar. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Two Years Before the Mast, Two Years Before the Mast pdf, Two Years Before the Mast book, Richard Henry Dana books, Richard Henry Dan
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429958111
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
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ISBN 13 : 9781544939148
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (391 download)
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Author : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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ISBN 13 : 9781975743321
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
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ISBN 13 : 9781701108851
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast. written by Jr Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-19 with total page 250 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.BackgroundWhile 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
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Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674335479
Total Pages : 512 pages
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