The Complete Two Years Before the Mast: Illustrated Classic
- ISBN-10
- 195043589X
- ISBN-13
- 9781950435890
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 420
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-01-30
- Publisher
- Seawolf Press
- Author
- Richard Henry Dana
Description
Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834.
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