- SKU: 9781604595598
- BARCODE: 9781604595598
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea - Paperback
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by Richard Henry Dana (Author)
Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s firsthand account of life as a common sailor aboard a merchant ship sailing from Boston to California and back.
At the age of nineteen, Dana left Harvard and enlisted as an ordinary seaman in order to restore his health and to experience maritime life directly. What followed was a demanding voyage around Cape Horn to the coast of California, then still part of Mexico. Dana records the routines of shipboard labor, the discipline imposed by officers, the hazards of storms and navigation, and the daily realities faced by sailors in the age of sail.
Beyond its vivid descriptions of maritime life, the book is notable for its social awareness. Dana writes with sympathy for the hardships endured by common seamen and offers one of the earliest American critiques of harsh maritime discipline. His observations of California prior to the Gold Rush also provide valuable historical insight into the region's early coastal settlements.
Widely read in the nineteenth century and still studied in courses on American literature and maritime history, Two Years Before the Mast remains a significant document of seafaring life and social reform.
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