Richard Henry Dana
Two Years Before the Mast : With an introduction and notes by Homer Eaton Keyes, B.L. Assistant Professor of Art in Dartmouth College
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( Jan. 10, 2012)
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana (1840) Scion of a prominent Boston family, Dana dropped out of Harvard and, hoping to recover the strength of his eyes, weakened by measles, signed on with a merchant ship as a common sailor. His book about his time at sea is an American classic, vivid in its description of the sailor's life and all its dangers and delights
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