Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana Jr., Wright Morris

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

Richard Henry Dana Jr., Wright Morris

383 pages • first pub 1840 (editions)

nonfiction classics history travel reflective slow-paced
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In 1834, a young man, recently of Harvard, signed on as a common seaman aboard the brig "Pilgrim" for the perilous voyage around Cape Horn to California. During the next two years he recorded the singulary joys and incredible hardships of a sailor...

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