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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b477131.
- catalog created "1911.".
- catalog date "1911".
- catalog date "1911.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1911.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 533, [1] p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Two years before the mast.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Two years before the mast.".
- catalog issued "1911".
- catalog issued "1911.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston and New York : Houghton Miffin company,".
- catalog relation "Two years before the mast.".
- catalog subject "Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882.".
- catalog subject "G540 D2 1911b".
- catalog subject "Sailors.".
- catalog subject "Seafaring life.".
- catalog subject "Voyages and travels.".
- catalog title "Two years before the mast : a personal narrative, by Richard Henry Dana, jr.; with a supplement by the author and introduction and additional chapter by his son ... with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith.".
- catalog type "text".