Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana
Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana
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Two Years Before the Mast

Author: Richard Henry Dana

Narrator: Bernard Mayes

Unabridged: 16 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/02/2010

Synopsis

Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as a voice from the sea. It is a book which influenced Conrad and Melville, and it has become a maritime classic which has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brig Pilgrim for a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. (Hence Dana Point was named). Drawing from his journals, Two Years Before the Mast gives a vivid and detailed account, shrewdly observed and beautifully described, of a common sailors wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time.

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Goodreads review by Brian on September 11, 2018

“The utmost was required of every man in the way of his duty.” “Two Years Before The Mast” was not always an enjoyable read for me, but overall it was a good one, and maybe even a necessary one. Published in 1840, this book is the account of Richard Henry Dana, a Harvard graduate, who spent two years......more

Goodreads review by Rick on November 20, 2012

In a way, the best thing for a writer is misfortune. In that regard, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. got lucky. A young Harvard man, he signed on as a common seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim, bound for California from Boston, to help improve his health. Had it been smooth sailing over benign seas under a wise......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 18, 2022

Two years from the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., did not go as anyone, including Dana himself, would have expected. For a young Boston gentleman of good family, a Harvard scholar, to sail “before the mast” as a common sailor on a merchant ship would have seemed unthinkable: it simply wasn’t done!......more

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