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405 pages 1 leaf of plates ; 21 cm "The five-foot shelf of books." "Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines and hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness and brutality of merchant ship captains and officers, and the beauty and danger of the southern oceans in winter. Included in an appendix is "Twenty-Four Years After" (1869), in which Dana describes his return to California in 1859-1860 and the immense changes brought about by American annexation, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, and the growing commerce of "a new world, the awakened Pacific.""

Author

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882

Publisher

New York: Collier

Published

1937

Language

EN

Rating

4.6 / 5 (88 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14