| Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After: Part 23 Harvard Classics Contributor(s): Dana, R. H. (Author), Eliot, Charles W. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0766182215 ISBN-13: 9780766182219 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: R.H. Dana took a sea voyage and decided to go as a sailor not as a passenger. The voyage was bound from his home town of Boston to California. His experiences during those two years form the subject of this volume. Later in life he took another voyage around the world and those observations form the postscript of this book. This books value and interest today are even greater than they were when it was written for, while the purely human element remains the same, the account of the routine on board the old sailing ships, the picture of the trading on the coast of California, and the description of that country in the days before the discovery of gold had transformed its civilization, have all acquired a historical importance. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6" W x 9.02" (1.43 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
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| Publisher Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |
