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2 days ago · Two Years Before the Mast" is a memoir by Richard Henry Dana Jr. that vividly recounts his experiences as a common sailor aboard a merchant ship in the early 19th century.
Jun 24, 2024 · After a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a commerce ship beginning in 1834, American author Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s memoir Two Years Before the Mast was published in 1840. Dana quit Harvard to serve as a common seaman on the ship Pilgrim on a voyage around Cape Horn.
3 days ago · Richard Henry Dana Jr. published Two Years Before the Mast in which he described his sailing journey in Mexican California during 1834-1836. His book was the first to raise Anglo-American awareness of California for Americans on the east coast.
4 days ago · Richard Henry Dana, author of "Two Years Before the Mast" stayed at Joseph and Sally Caswell's earliest island guest house in August 1843. Dana's first impression was wading up the beach through heaps of stinking fish heads and fish bones.
2 days ago · Two years later, he had obtained his first mate's ticket, and in 1898, he was certified as a master mariner, qualifying him to command a British ship anywhere in the world. In 1898, he joined Union-Castle Line, the regular mail and passenger carrier between Britain and South Africa.
Jun 28, 2024 · New book by retired teacher follows New London vessel forced into military service. On Sept. 29, 1846, the whaleship Stonington, three years out of New London, was off the Pacific coast when it...
6 days ago · Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Pdf. A simplified edition of the work describing life at sea in the 1830's from the viewpoint of a common sailor in the American merchant service.
