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Author | : Annette Brock Davis |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1459714261 |
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In 1933, a young Canadian woman rejected the expectations of society and her upper-class family and became a crew member aboard one of the last great four-masted sailing vessels that still plied the ocean. It was not an easy task. Young Annette had to fight pressures from her family, rejection from schools of navigation, and doubts from ship owners. When she finally found a berth as an apprentice seaman, she faced hostility from officers and crew, who grumbled that she should be home "raising babies." In the end, however, Annette won their respect, taking in sails, standing night watches, hauling and coiling ropes all the tasks the men were doing, with no concession to a girl’s lesser strength. My Year Before the Mast tells the story of Annette Brock Davis’s life on the sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line. Her courage and determination to break into a closed male world are central to this book, but we cannot ignore the fact that, while this is a book about a woman’s struggle, it is also a book about the sea. Davis brings to life an era long gone, and introduces an incredible cast of characters the crew, officers, and passengers, each with his own foibles, humour, generosity, and flashes of meanness. But through it all, Annette emerges as the most remarkable character of them all.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780451531254 |
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Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book."
Author | : Jacob A. Hazen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jacob A. Hazen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Seafaring life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Henry DANA (Author of "Two Years before the Mast.") |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780099068907 |
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486135748 |
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In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman, resulting in this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, plus fascinating historical details.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas Peter Isaacs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781720582946 |
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Two Years Before the Mast by Richard H. Dana. In 1869, my father, the late Richard Henry Dana, Jr., prepared a new edition of his ``Two Years Before the Mast'' with this preface: ``After twenty-eight years, the copyright of this book has reverted to me. In presenting the first `author's edition' to the public, I have been encouraged to add an account of a visit to the old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together with notices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the persons with whom the reader is made acquainted.'' The popularity of this book has been so great and continued that it is now proposed to make an illustrated edition with new material. I have prepared a concluding chapter to continue my father's ``Twenty-four Years After.'' This will give all that we have since learned of the fate of crew and vessels, and a brief account of Mr. Dana himself and his important lifework, which appears more fully in his published biography and printed speeches and letters. This concluding chapter will take the place of the biographic sketch prefixed to the last authorized edition. There is also added an appendix with a list of the crews of the two vessels in which Mr. Dana sailed, extracts from a log, and also plates of spars, rigging and sails, with names, to aid the reader.