Two Years Before the Mast
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey L. Amestoy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2015-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674088190 |
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer’s memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s determination to keep that vow.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Henry Dana, Jr |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781014118400 |
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Author | : Joseph A. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Nautical training-schools |
ISBN | : 9780989939416 |
Under New York City's Throgs Neck Bridge lies a spit of land dominated by a pentagonal, 19th-century fortress that today houses a school that has trained mariners since the age of sail. Within Fort Schuyler's walls are stories of heroism and mutinies, shipwrecks and desertions. In Four Years Before the Mast, author Joseph A. Williams uses his access to archival materials to tell the tale of that institution known today as SUNY Maritime College.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2014-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781495915437 |
While attending Harvard as a young man, Richard Dana's eyesight became weak and his health declined. He decided that the austere prescription of salt air and plain hard work would be the cure. Not many would give up comfort and privilege, but for two years, Dana served as a common sailor, given no special treatment as the gentleman he was, and lived in the forecastle of the Alert, eating the mess of salt beef and common hardtack, risking his life and serving under a captain crueler than most. Dana was able to write in such a way as to re-create the life on board a sailing ship, down to the smallest details and that's what makes this book so real and touching. You can feel the cold of Tierra del Fuego, taste the salt beef, and feel the wind and damp. What's more amazing is that Dana's carefully-kept journal was lost along with his other mementos of his voyage when he landed back on shore in Boston, due to some tragic carelessness of someone he entrusted with his chest of belongings. Yet he was able to recreate his voyage in vivid detail and in some very excellent writing. Dana's later life as a lawyer was far from happy, though he made some critical contributions to maritime law. He died a poor and disappointed man, but left us the richer with his book.
Author | : Charles Erskine |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Seafaring life |
ISBN | : |
In 1838, seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world. Here he shares his adventures as a sailor as he traveled to unexplored regions of the world.
Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1429958111 |
This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.