Books published by publisher COLLIER

Tracing an awe-inspiring ocean journey from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and an eloquent, insightful account of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. This is American literature and American history at its very best. The appendix, "Twenty-Four Years After," recounts his visit to California after the Gold Rush, where he revisited some of the sites mentioned in the book as well as seeing several old friends including some that had also been mentioned.