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Author : Richard Henry Dana
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ISBN 13 :
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 : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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)
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:
Author : Richard Henry Dana
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Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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ISBN 13 : 9780843200072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Seaman's Friend written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Henry Dana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781495915437
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)
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.
Author : Joseph A. Williams
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ISBN 13 : 9780989939416
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Four Years Before the Mast written by Joseph A. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under New York City's Throgs Neck Bridge lies a spit of land dominated by a pentagonal, 19th-century fortress that today houses a school that has trained mariners since the age of sail. Within Fort Schuyler's walls are stories of heroism and mutinies, shipwrecks and desertions. In Four Years Before the Mast, author Joseph A. Williams uses his access to archival materials to tell the tale of that institution known today as SUNY Maritime College.
Author : Charles Erskine
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book 20 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST PB written by Charles Erskine and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1838, seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world. Here he shares his adventures as a sailor as he traveled to unexplored regions of the world.
Author : Jr Richard Henry Dana
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ISBN 13 : 9781701108851
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
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
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297753X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book California written by Kevin Starr and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429958111
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Looking for a Ship written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Author : Ben Van Etten
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ISBN 13 : 9781535612487
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years Before the (Rotor) Mast written by Ben Van Etten and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a memoir of 50 years flying helicopters in a variety of situations. Included are rescues, combat operations, mountain and off-shore flying, medical evacuations, flight instruction and numerous flight missions that require pushing the flight envelope to the maximum. Highlighted are Ben Van Etten's five years as a flight captain with Air America, Inc. in Thailand and the unpublicized war in Laos. During that period the author describes in detail his interaction with other pilots and his "customers," primarily the CIA. The book also includes geographical and historical observations from a first person prospective. And a vivid description from inside the cockpit during many lifesaving missions. This book should tweak the interest of aviators and non-aviators alike.
Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674335479
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Writing New England written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized thematically, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an introductory essay on the origins of New England, a detailed chronology, and explanatory headnotes for each selection, the book is a welcoming introduction to a great American literary tradition and a treasury of vivid writing that defines what it has meant, over nearly four centuries, to be a New Englander.
Author : Terry Beers
Publisher : Heyday Books
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Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Califauna written by Terry Beers and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from some of California's best writers and thinkers, this anthology explores the relationship between animal and human in the Golden State.
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, Jr.
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 252 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.
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007597833
Total Pages : 0 pages
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