Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After (Harvard Classics, #23)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780766182219 (0766182215)
Publish date: January 1st 2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
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...