Bibliograph

Two years before the mast, Richard Henry Dana

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Two years before the mast, Richard Henry Dana

Language

eng

resource.accompanyingMatter

libretto or text

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not applicable

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not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

Main title

Two years before the mast

Medium

electronic resource

Music parts

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Oclc number

82142652

Responsibility statement

Richard Henry Dana

Summary

Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." It is a book that influenced Conrad and Melville, and it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea. Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brig Pilgrim for a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. (Hence Dana Point was named). Drawing from his journals, Two Years Before the Mast gives a vivid and detailed account-shrewdly observed and beautifully described-of a common sailor's wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time

Target audience

general

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2 years before the mast

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