Two Years Before the Mast

by E.R. Cruz and Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Two Years Before the Mast, Dana's account of his passage as a common seaman from Boston around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life: the day-to-day routines and conversations, the sailors who manned the ship, the brutality of incompetent officers, and the style of life in the newly emerging coastal towns of California. As Thomas Philbrick discusses in his introduction, the public's sympathy for the plight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883012707
• ISBN13: 9780883012703
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Pendulum Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Age Range: 9 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 12