Two Years Before the Mast
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (834 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00595VMOE |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 532 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dana Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard J
Wish I had been there too ! This is a great story for nautical buffs, history buffs and adventure fans. This young man takes passage to sail around the horn to go to California in it's days of infancy as a traders destination.I found the personal stories , the information of the early days at the ports of call and the hist. engrossing read In the 1830's, the author (then a sickly Harvard student) shipped as a common sailor on a commercial clipper ship which left Boston to sail to California and back. Although an educated young man, he lived among the uneducated sailors as one of their own, almost completely separate from the offic. Fascinating look at the life of a common sailor in the 1800's Two Years Before The Mast is written as a journal that skips over the mundane boring days, to give you a fantastic view into life on a merchant ship plying the West Coast in the 1800s. Written by a common sailor about life on the ship, Two Years was a refreshing change from most books and movies