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Two Years Before the Mast: A Two-Year Sea Voyage from Boston to California on a Merchant Ship

Two Years Before the Mast: A Two-Year Sea Voyage from Boston to California on a Merchant Ship

Dana Jr, Richard H.

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ISBN10: 1522982930
ISBN13: 9781522982937
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 30 2015
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Two Years before the Mast

Richard H. Dana, Jr.

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.

While an undergraduate at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, 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 aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).

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