
Two Years Before The Mast: Or A Sailor's Life At Sea (Classic Reprint)
The most fitting introduction to the British Nation of this Robinson Crusoe at sea, is that by the talented editor of The Knickerbocker, New York Monthly Magazine: We have, says he, no hesitation in pronouncing this volume one of the nost striking, and evidently faithful pictures of real life at sea that has come under our observation. It is literally what it claims to be, a Voice from the Forecas...
Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Forgotten Books (August 12, 2012)
Language: English
ASIN: B0095BLQAS
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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“Two Years Before the MastRichard Henry Dana suffered from measles while a student at Harvard in 1834. Rather than suffer a slow recovery from weakened eyesight, he shipped out as a common sailor, rather than as a passenger, on a long sea voyage. Afte...”
le ;and narrates, from the notes of a journal kept during the entire period, the events of two years spent as a common sailor before the mast, in the American merchant service. The writer is Mr. R. H. Dana, jun., of Boston, a son of the well-known author of The Buccaneers. The voyage round Cape Hornj from Boston to the western coast of North A merica, was undertaken from a determination to dispel, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a complaint which had obliged him to give up his pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure. From the moment of the change from the tight dress-coat, silk cap, and kid gloves, of an undergraduate of Cambridge, to the loose duck trousers, checked shirt, and tarpaulin hat of the regular; Jack-tar, our young author seems to have determined to play, or rather work the part of a thorough sailor; and we cannot sufiiciently admire the uncomplaining fortitude with which, for two long years, he bore the multiJE arious hardships of a common seamans lot. For himself, great as was the change in his avocations, he never utters a murmur. Whether tarring down the rigging, cleaning Spanish hides, and carrying them on his head through the surf of a Californian coast, sending down a royalyard, or furling a yard-arm T he editor must mean the jib. off Cape Horn in a hurricane of hail and sleet, While the tough cordage creaks, and yelling loud, The fierce north-westfir sin the frozen shroud; in(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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