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Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

This work provides an account of the author's five month journey around Cape Horn in 1834 as an ordinary seaman. It clearly and graphically recounts the harsh conditions of life at sea, from storms to floggings and the larger-than-life characters of the captains and crews.

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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

A young man tells of his experiences as a common sailor and provides a realistic portrait of the brutal life of nineteenth-century seamen.

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Two years before the mast and Twenty-four years after

Two years before the mast and Twenty-four years after more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ...

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Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard Henry Dana Jr

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Two years before the mast a personal narrative

Two years before the mast a personal narrative more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

In 1834, a young Harvard man signed on as a common seaman for a perilous voyage around Cape Horn to California. During the next two years he kept a daily journal that endures as one of the most vivid recreations of life at sea ever published. New Introduction by John Seelye. Afterword by Wright Morris.

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To Cuba & Back

To Cuba & Back more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

During the mid 19th century the US Senate entertained a bill to expand South and annex Cuba, to become not only a Caribbean empire but the greatest slaveholding nation in history. The 1860 publication of To Cuba and Back detailing, in Dana's words, .the despotic civil government, compulsory religion uniformity, and slavery.. changed many minds. ...

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Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages: Two Years Before the Mast/To Cuba and Back/Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860

Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages: Two Years Before the Mast/To Cuba and Back/Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Together for the first time: Two Years Before the Mast, the thrilling nautical classic by one of America's first and greatest travel writers, along with hard-to-find narratives of Dana's later journeys to Cuba and Asia.

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The journal of Richard Henry Dana Jr more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana, Robert Francis Lucid

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Poems & Prose Writings more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

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Two Years

by Richard Henry Dana

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The Seaman's Friend: A Treatise on Practical Seamanship

The Seaman's Friend: A Treatise on Practical Seamanship more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

An authentic look at the standard operating procedures aboard a 19th-century ship by the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," from tying knots to quelling a mutiny. Glossary.

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The Seaman's Friend

The Seaman's Friend more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

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Two Years Before the Mast: 2a Personal Narrative of Life at Sea more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Jr Dana

On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ...

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A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech

A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech more books like this

by Samuel Leech, Michael Crawford (Introduction by), Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Introduction by)

First published in 1834, Samuel Leech's autobiographical account of his adventures on British and U.S. frigates offers not only entertaining action but an astute observation of the harsh rigors and traditions of naval life during the early nineteenth century. The author's graphic description of constant lashings helped fuel the reform movement ...

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Hospitable England in the Seventies: The Diary of a Young American 1875-1876

Hospitable England in the Seventies: The Diary of a Young American 1875-1876

by Richard H Dana

The adventures and experiences of a young American in England in the mid 1870s. Illustrated. Originally published in 1921.

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Two Years Before the Mast more books like this

by Arthur Addison (Narrator), Richard Henry Dana

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Two years before the mast; or, A sailor's life at sea more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

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The Trent Affair: An Aftermath (1912)

by Richard Henry Dana

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Two Years Before the Mast more books like this

by John N Fago (Editor), Richard Henry Dana, Ernesto Cruz (Illustrator)

On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ...

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Richard Henry Dana, JR.: Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son (1910)

by Richard Henry Dana Jr, Richard H Dana III (Editor)

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Poems and Prose Writings. Vol. 1 more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

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Two Years Before the Mast, Large-Print Edition more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

Tracing an awe-inspiring ocean journey from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and an eloquent, insightful account of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. At the young age of nineteen, Richard Henry Dana abandoned the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for ...

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The Buccaneer & Other Poems

by Richard Henry Dana

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Two Years Before the Mast Readalong more books like this

by Richard Henry Dana

On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ...

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Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son

by Richard Henry Dana (Editor)

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