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Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834.
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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. While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision.
On August 14, 1834, nineteen-year-old Richard Henry Dana Jr. made his way to Boston Harbor in search of a two-masted brig called the Pilgrim.
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century.
by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. THE LITERARY WORK. Narrative set along the California coast from 1834 to 1836; published in 1840. SYNOPSIS. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. chronicles two years of his life as a merchant seaman on board a trade vessel voyaging from Boston to California and back. Events in History at the Time the Narrative Takes Place.
“Two Years Before the Mast” Subjects Of Study: international law. Richard Henry Dana (born Aug. 1, 1815, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 6, 1882, Rome, Italy) was an American lawyer and author of the popular autobiographical narrative Two Years Before the Mast.
