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The Journalby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. , Robert Francis LucidISBN 0196265142 (0-19-626514-2)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyagesby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. , Robert Francis LucidISBN 1931082839 (1-931082-83-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyages'Book summary:This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam.
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 classic account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Written with an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous maritime literature, 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."
Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate. To Cuba and Back (1859) is his entertaining and enthusiastic account of his trip, during which he toured Havana and a sugar plantation; attended a bullfight; visited chuches, hospitals, schools, and prisons; and investigated the impact on Cuban society of slavery and autocratic Spanish rule.
Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 records the 14-month circumnavigation that took Dana to California, Hawaii, China, Japan, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. Written with unflagging energy and curiosity, the journal provides fascinating vignettes of frontier life in California, missionary influence in Hawaii, the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War on China, and the opening of Japan to the West, while capturing the transition from the age of sail to the faster, smaller world created by the steamship and the telegraph. [via]More editions of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyages:
The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanshipby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. , Robert Francis LucidISBN 048629918X (0-486-29918-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Two Years Before the Mastby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. , Robert Francis LucidISBN 1404335072 (1-4043-3507-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast'Book summary:Avast there all you Patrick O'Brian fans! Here is a personal narrative of the seaman's life in the age of sail: 1815-1882, and a classic of nautical literature. Dana was a Harvard student recovering from the measles when he decided it would be more interesting to do so at sea as a common sailor. In 1834 he joined a two-year voyage rounding Cape Horn to deliver cargo to California. All the color and detail of daily life at sea as well as descriptions of various ports. Rousing! [via]
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Two Years Before the Mastby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.ISBN 1853265632 (1-85326-563-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Seaby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.ISBN 0140390081 (0-14-039008-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea'Book summary: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." [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Seaby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.ISBN 0333307852 (0-333-30785-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Two Years Before the Mast and Sir Francis Drake Revivedby Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. , Philip NicholsISBN 1414209665 (1-4142-0966-5)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After: Harvard Classics 1909by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. , Philip NicholsISBN 0766182215 (0-7661-8221-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After: Harvard Classics 1909'Book summary:R.H. Dana took a sea voyage and decided to go as a sailor not as a passenger. The voyage was bound from his home town of Boston to California. His experiences during those two years form the subject of this volume. Later in life he took another voyage around the world and those observations form the postscript of this book. This books value and interest today are even greater than they were when it was written for, while the purely human element remains the same, the account of the routine on board the old sailing ships, the picture of the trading on the coast of California, and the description of that country in the days before the discovery of gold had transformed its civilization, have all acquired a historical importance. [via]
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