Richard Henry Dana
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English
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After a bout with the measles that left his vision impaired, Harvard undergrad Richard Henry Dana signed up for a two-year engagement as a sailor, thinking that the fresh sea air might improve his vision. The diary that Dana kept during his stint on the open sea formed the basis for this wildly popular memoir, which was later made into a movie. A must-read for fans of rip-roaring nautical tales or social history buffs.
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English
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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. 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. He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote this classic. The term...
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Library of America volume 161
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
926 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Sheridan House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 395 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana's classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America, he annotates Dana's tale with critiques, compliments, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 38 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Like the rest of the world's landlubbers, Charles Stewart knew nothing of a sailer's life at sea, and as the son of a very rich ship owner, he never should have. But after being made to sail on the S.S. Pilgrim, he soon discovers the ocean of brutality that was a sailor's lot in life during the 1840s. Sickened and ultimately swayed by a sea of daily floggings, beatings, and knifings, Charles must decide between silence and allegiance or mutiny against...
