Two Years Before the Mast, and Twenty-four Years After: A Personal Narrative

Description:

In 1834, Richard Dana, went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea.

subjects: Sailors,  Voyages and travels,  Seamen,  Literature,  Collections,  Seafaring life,  Voyages,  Vie en mer