Two Years Before the Mast
In this nineteenth-century nautical memoir, a Harvard man sails around the tip of South America to California-and returns with this classic tale of adventure. In 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 captai…
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Weitere Autoren: Dana, Richard Henry
- ISBN: 978-1-5040-2519-5
- EAN: 9781504025195
- Produktnummer: 20682946
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 190 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'466 KB
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Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882) was an American lawyer, author, and statesman best known for his classic memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Born to a prominent family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dana defended the rights of merchant seamen, helped to found the antislavery Free Soil Party in 1848, and advocated on behalf of freedmen during Reconstruction. The city and headland of Dana Point, California, is named in his honor.
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