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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In 1834, 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. Revised reissue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Possesses . . . the romantic charm of Robinson Crusoe."<br>--Ralph Waldo Emerson<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of <b>The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</b>, <b>Mark Twain at the Movies</b>, <b>Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Literature</b>, <b>Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic</b>, <b>Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock</b>, and <b>War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism</b>. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.

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