Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast

Richard H. Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, 1st Edition

$675.00

“…If You Want the Best Idea of Cape Horn,
Get My Friend Dana’s Unmatchable Two Years Before the Mast….
–Herman Melville

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Richard Dana, Jr. wrote Two Years Before the Mast after a enlisting  as a common sailor for a two-year voyage around Cape Horn.

Dana kept a diary of his journey. Two Years Before the Mast is based on this diary. “This account of California in 1835 and 1836 surpassed in popularity all other books relating to the state.”

Dana would go on the be a staunch abolitionist; and a founder of the Free Soil Party. This Author’s Edition contains additional material from Dana’s visit years later.

Tight and clean throughout; soiling of the original gold-stamped boards; denting of spine.

Dana Richard Henry, Jr.  TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE.  New Edition with Subsequent Matter by the Author.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1869.  1st thus; 473p.   [Howes D-49].

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