Charles William Eliot
Birth date: March 20, 1834
Died: August 25, 1926
Charles William Eliot's Books
In 1834, the Harvard student Richard Henry Dana decided that he needed to improve his health by fresh air and exercise, and therefore shipped as a common sailor aboard a brig bound for California. Thus was the origin of one of the most readable and informative sea memoirs ever written. A good part o...