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Two Years Before the Mast
(A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea)
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| Author(s): | Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Illustrator(s): | None |
| Publisher(s): | Harper & Brothers |
| Year Published: | 1840 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | American Biography Sea Stories |
| Age Range: | Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 483 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 19520057 |
Description
His studies at Harvard interrupted by vision problems, the author embarked as a merchant seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim in 1834 on a voyage to Alta California, still under Mexican rule. After helping to cure and load a cargo of cow hides, he was transferred to the Alert and made an eastward passage of Cape Horn in the dead of winter. Read online at Hathitrust.
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Two Years Before the Mast (1904)
The author shipped before the mast on a voyage to California in 1834 to collect a cargo of hides.
Two Years Before the Mast (1911)
His studies at Harvard interrupted by vision problems, the author embarked as a merchant seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim in 1834 on a voyage to Alta California, still under Mexican rule. After helping to cure and load a cargo of cow hides he was transferred to the Alert and made an eastward passage of Cape Horn in the dead of winter. Read online at archive.org.
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