Two Years Before The Mast - Hardcover

Dana, Richard Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1945644044 ISBN 13: 9781945644047

Publisher: Chump Change, 1840

Synopsis

This special edition of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST includes updates 24 and 76 years after the initial voyage. Richard Dana writes so that the reader can feel the icy Chilean waters, taste the hardtack, and feel whip upon your flogged back.

Take the voyage with him as he leaves Harvard to travel with a mad captain around South America to the coasts of California.  Feel the same passions that influenced Herman Melville in writing his book Moby Dick and made D.H. Lawrence declare, “Dana's small book is a very great book.”

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From the Inside Flap:

Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book."

From the Back Cover:

"Possesses . . . the romantic charm of Robinson Crusoe."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

About this edition

• Publisher: Chump Change
• Publication date: 1840
• ISBN 10: 1945644044
• ISBN 13: 9781945644047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198