Two Years Before the Mast
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Sailors |
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Sailors |
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Author | : Jeffrey L. Amestoy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2015-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674088190 |
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 (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Offers a guide to changing current thinking to avoid the corporate media hype, shaped by brand-names, celebrities, and empty gloss, that defines our modern culture.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781523998685 |
Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946. The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors - in the forecastle, in the front of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes; he later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. Dana did not set out to write Two Years Before the Mast as a sea adventure, but to highlight how poorly common sailors were treated on ships. It quickly became a best seller.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Sailors |
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Author | : Kevin Starr |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081297753X |
“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
Author | : Richard Henry Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2017-07-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781521891148 |
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.
Author | : Howard Rodman |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161219785X |
"My favorite read of the year..."—Keegan-Michael Key, Top Ten Picks, New York Times A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion. A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel finds himself going up against his own ship, and the strange man hired to protect it, Captain Ahab, in a battle for the soul of the 19th century.