age ~59
from Weatherford, TX
This book is the account of the author’s life as a common sailor between 1834 and 1836. Dana was a Harvard undergraduate and decided to “go before the mast” and experience life at sea. The book has been described as one of American literature’s classics. The author’s plan for his book was to “give a...
Author
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Binding
Paperback
Pages
382
Publisher
Solis Press
ISBN #
1907947949
EAN Code
9781907947940
ISBN #
5
This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam. Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Yea...
Author
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
926
Publisher
Library of America
ISBN #
1931082839
EAN Code
9781931082839
ISBN #
4
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally imp...
Author
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Pages
432
Publisher
Signet
ISBN #
0451531256
EAN Code
9780451531254
ISBN #
3
A sailor's observation of a younger, wilder California In this excerpt from Richard Henry Dana's around-the-Horn masterpiece, Two Years Before the Mast, we experience the wonder Dana felt when beholding the California coast for the first time, in 1835: ''[T]here was a grandeur in everything around, ...
Author
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Binding
Paperback
Pages
96
Publisher
Heyday
ISBN #
1597141194
EAN Code
9781597141192
ISBN #
10
Born into a comfortable and affluent New England family, Richard Henry Dana (who once studied under the great Ralph Waldo Emerson) disconcertingly took to the high seas in 1834 as a common sailor, an experience that would color his classic memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Despite his failing vision...
Author
Richard Henry Dana
Binding
Paperback
Pages
334
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1512382779
EAN Code
9781512382778
ISBN #
8
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than g...
Author
Richard Henry Dana
Binding
Paperback
Pages
190
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1441405402
EAN Code
9781441405401
ISBN #
2
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer’s memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or und...
Author
Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674088190
EAN Code
9780674088191
ISBN #
1
A first-hand look at what life was like in Cuba from the author of Two Years Before the Mast. This book has entirely redesigned for the modern reader in a larger more readable font.
Author
Richard Henry Dana
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
300
ISBN #
9