Two Years Before The Mast: And Twenty Four Years After
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781589761025 (1589761022)
Publish date: July 1st 2001
Publisher: Stackpole Books
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...