| Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea Contributor(s): Dana, Richard Henry (Author), Philbrick, Thomas (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140390081 ISBN-13: 9780140390087 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1981 Annotation: The narrative of the author's journey from Boston around the Cape Horn and landing at a port in the western coast of the United States. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Expeditions & Discoveries |
| Dewey: 910.45 |
| LCCN: 81010697 |
| Lexile Measure: 1290 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (1.00 lbs) 576 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 721 Reading Level: 7.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 26.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage 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 of mariners, which was aroused by the book, eventually faded, but Two Years Before the Mast forever changed readers' romanticized perceptions of life at sea and inaugurated a lasting tradition of realism and concern for human values. |