Two Years Before the Mast
- ISBN-10
- 1523967471
- ISBN-13
- 9781523967476
- Series
- Two Years Before the Mast
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-10
- Author
- Richard Henry Dana
Description
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946. In the book, which takes place between 1834 and 1836, Dana gives a vivid account of "the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is". He sails from Boston to South America and around Cape Horn to California. Dana's ship was on a voyage to trade goods from the United States for the Mexican colonial Californian California missions' and ranchos' cow hides.
