Two Years Before The Mast And Twenty-Four Years After
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780217652919 (0217652913)
Publish date: July 10th 2012
Publisher: General Books LLC
Pages no: 260
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...