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Modern Library Classics

Two Years Before the Mast

A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

Two Years Before the Mast

Modern Library Classics

Two Years Before the Mast

A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Modern Library Classics: Two Years Before the Mast

 

A personal narrative of life aboard an American merchant ship in the 1830s.


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Beschrijving Modern Library Classics: Two Years Before the Mast

Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book."


ISBN
9780375757945
Pagina's
544
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Serie
Modern Library Classics
NUR
508
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Random House USA Inc