Two Years Before the Mast By Dana Richard Henry
Description
In 1834 Richard Henry Dana Jr left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class Dana s account of his passage around Cape Horn to California and back is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life the day to day routines and conversations the sailors who manned the ship the brutality of incompetent officers and the style of life in the newly emerging coastal towns of California As Thomas Philbrick discusses in his introduction the public s sympathy for the plight of mariners which was aroused by the book eventually faded but ...
ISBN(s)
0140390081, 9780140390087
