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by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

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text Two Years Before the Mast & Twenty-Four Years After

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...

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