The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast
- ISBN-10
- 1574093193
- ISBN-13
- 9781574093193
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 406
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-11-07
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Description
Two Years Before the Mast is a classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works like Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As he follows Richard Henry Dana (a Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America (encountering racial injustices and struggling through the battered life of a foremast crewman), Rod Scher annotates his tale with critiques, compliments, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of Dana’s time.
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