Two Years Before the Mast
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (681 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000HDHHD8 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 555 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
High Quality Leather Cover Chip Lohman Nice quality cover. Was a gift for a family who just returned from 2 years at sea.
In 1869, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. So, Dana, along with others of the Pilgrim's crew, tossed the hides from the bluffs, while spinning them like a frisbee. Since that day, that point where the bluffs were located, took on Dana's name, and is today the city of Dana Point. In the book, which takes place between 1834 and 1836, Dana gives a vivid account of "the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is". added an appendix entitled "Twenty-Four Years After". Some hides got stuck part way down the cliff and Dana was lowered with ropes to retrieve them. On the return trip around Cape Horn in the middle of the Antarctic winter he describes terrifying storms and incredible beauty, giving vivid descriptions of icebergs, and the scurvy that afflicts members of the crew. He gives descriptions of landing at each of the ports up and down the California coast as they existed then. Interestingly, the bluffs near Mission San Juan Capistrano presented an obstacle to taking the cow hides to the beach for subsequent loading onto the ship. He also gives a nice description of a society wedding