Two Years Before the Mast
- ISBN-10
- 0883012707
- ISBN-13
- 9780883012703
- Series
- Two Years Before the Mast
- Category
- Seafaring life
- Pages
- 62
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Author
- Richard Henry Dana
Description
Two Years Before the Mast, Dana's account of his passage as a common seaman from Boston 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. Book jacket.
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