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Two Years Before the Mast
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| Author(s): | Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
| Illustrator(s): | Arthur Rackham |
| Publisher(s): | Collins’ Clear-Type Press John C. Winston Co. |
| Year Published: | 1904 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | American Biography Sea Stories |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 304 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 51217218 |
Description
The author shipped before the mast on a voyage to California in 1834 to collect a cargo of hides.
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Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
His studies at Harvard interrupted by vision problems, the author embarked as a merchant seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim in 1834 on a voyage to Alta California, still under Mexican rule. After helping to cure and load a cargo of cow hides, he was transferred to the Alert and made an eastward passage of Cape Horn in the dead of winter. Read online at Hathitrust.
Two Years Before the Mast (1911)
His studies at Harvard interrupted by vision problems, the author embarked as a merchant seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim in 1834 on a voyage to Alta California, still under Mexican rule. After helping to cure and load a cargo of cow hides he was transferred to the Alert and made an eastward passage of Cape Horn in the dead of winter. Read online at archive.org.
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