Two Years Before The Mast And Twenty Four Years After: Part 23 Harvard Classics
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781432619626 (1432619624)
Publish date: January 1st 2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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...