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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.
Jul 1, 2003 · Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Harvard Classics. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Two Years Before the Mast was published in 1840, and though it sold 200,000 copies in its first decade, he’d turned down a deal that would have earned him a 10 percent royalty. Instead he ...
Feb 1, 2000 · Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Harvard Classics. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Richard Henry Dana was an American lawyer and author of the popular autobiographical narrative Two Years Before the Mast. Dana withdrew from Harvard College when measles weakened his eyesight, and he shipped to California as a sailor in August 1834 to regain his health.
Mar 11, 2020 · 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.
With Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald. The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his father's ships after he is unwillingly press-ganged aboard.
