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Author : Richard Henry Dana
Release : 1895
Genre : Sailors
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Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast by : Richard Henry Dana
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana. This book was released on 1895. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles William Eliot
Release : 1909
Genre : Literature
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Book Synopsis The Harvard Classics by : Charles William Eliot
Download or read book The Harvard Classics written by Charles William Eliot. This book was released on 1909. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Release : 1887
Genre : Cuba
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Book Synopsis To Cuba and Back by : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Download or read book To Cuba and Back written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.). This book was released on 1887. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Release : 2015-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Slavish Shore by : Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Download or read book Slavish Shore written by Jeffrey L. Amestoy. This book was released on 2015-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2012-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 670/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Two Years Before the Mast - the Original Classic Edition by : Richard Henry Dana
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast - the Original Classic Edition written by Richard Henry Dana. This book was released on 2012-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should you read this book? Yes, it is a classic. Yes, it documents the wonderful, adventurous time of the clipper ship. But thats not why you should read it. Richard Henry Dana must have been a most extraordinary man. While attending Harvard as a young man, his 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 privelege, 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 thats 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. Whats more amazing is that Danas 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 loving detail and in some very excellent writing. Danas 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. I just re-read it again for the tenth time, and it is fresher than ever. Read it along side of Moby Dick. Its American literature and American history and culture at its very best.
