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Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast

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In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class.  Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life: the day-to-day routines and conversations, the sailors who manned the ship, the brutality of incompetent officers, and the style of life in the newly emerging coastal towns of California.  As Thomas Philbrick discusses in his introduction, the public’s sympathy for the plight of mariners, which was aroused by the book, eventually faded, but Two Years Before the Mast forever changed readers’ romanticized perceptions of life at sea and inaugurated a lasting tradition of realism and concern for human values.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
578
Release Date:
1982-03-25
Publication Date:
1981-12-17
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140390081
ISBN13:
9780140390087
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
603 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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