Two years before the mast : a personal narrative / by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

Seafaring life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two Years Before The Mast is a wonderful, elegantly written adventure classic that is still enjoyable more than one hundred years after its original publication. This is Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s account of his life as a common seaman aboard the brig the Pilgrim which set out from Boston on August 14,1835 destined for California by way of the treacherous Cape Horn. Dana gives an engrossing, detailed account of the workings of the ship, the day-to-day routines of the deck hands, and the brutal shortcomings of inept, tyrannical officers. This "author's addition" includes a chapter written by Dana twenty-four years after his initial voyage where he revisits some of the people, places and vessels that he had encountered on his original journey.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

DEPARTURE.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

SHIP'S DUTIES.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

SUNDAYS AT SEA.

TROUBLE ON BOARD.

LAND HO!

A PAMPERO

CAPE HORN.

CHAPTER V.

A VISIT.

CHAPTER VI.

LOSS OF A MAN.

CHAPTER VII.

SUPERSTITIONS.

JUAN FERNANDEZ.

PUTTING THE VESSEL IN ORDER.

CHAPTER VIII.

PAINTING.

DAILY LIFE.

POINT CONCEPTION.

CHAPTER IX.

SANTA BARBARA.

BEACH-COMBING.

A SOUTHEASTER.

CHAPTER X.

PASSAGE UP THE COAST.

CHAPTER XI.

MONTEREY.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

A BRITISH SAILOR.

CHAPTER XIV.

HIDE DROGHING.

DISCONTENT.

SAN PEDRO.

FLOGGING.

CHAPTER XV.

NIGHT ON SHORE.

STATE OF THINGS ON BOARD.

SAN DIEGO.

CHAPTER XVI.

LIBERTY-DAY ON SHORE.

CHAPTER XVII.

A DESERTION.

SAN PEDRO AGAIN.

EASTER SUNDAY.

CHAPTER XVIII.

ITALIAN SAILORS.

SAN JUAN.

SAN DIEGO AGAIN.

LIFE ON SHORE.

CHAPTER XIX.

SANDWICH-ISLANDERS.

HIDE-CURING.

WOOD-CUTTING.

COYOTES.

RATTLESNAKES.

CHAPTER XX .

NEW COMERS.

PEOPLE AT THE HIDE-HOUSES.

LEISURE.

PILGRIM.-NEWS FROM HOME.

PILGRIM.-OCCUPATIONS ON THE BEACH.

CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS.

CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER XXII.

LIFE ON THE BEACH.

THE ALERT.

CHAPTER XXIII .

NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES.

A RACE.

MY WATCHMATE, TOM HARRIS.

CHAPTER XXIV.

A DESCENT.

HURRIED DEPARTURE.

A NEW SHIPMATE.

CHAPTER XXV.

RUMORS OF WAR.

A SPOUTER.

SUDDEN SLIPPING FOR A SOUTHEASTER.

TO WINDWARD.

A DRY GALE.

CHAPTER XXVI.

SAN FRANCISCO.

MONTEREY REVISITED.

CHAPTER XXVII.

MONTEREY REVISITED.

A SET-TO.

A DECAYED GENTLEMAN.

A CONTRABANDISTA.

A FANDANGO.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

A VICTIM.

CALIFORNIA RANGERS.-BEACH-COMBERS.

NEWS FROM HOME.

LAST LOOKS.

CHAPTER XXIX.

LOADING FOR HOME.

A SURPRISE.

LAST OF AN OLD FRIEND.

THE LAST HIDE.

A HARD CASE.

UP ANCHOR, FOR HOME!

THE ALERT AND CALIFORNIA.

HOMEWARD BOUND.

CHAPTER XXX.

OUR PASSENGER, PROFESSOR NUTTALL.

CHAPTER XXXI.

BAD PROSPECTS.

FIRST TOUCH OF CAPE HORN.

ICEBERGS.

TEMPERANCE SHIPS.

LYING-UP

ICE.

DIFFICULTY ON BOARD.

CHANGE OF COURSE.

STRAITS OF MAGELLAN.

CHAPTER XXXII.

ICE AGAIN.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

CRACKING ON.

PROGRESS HOMEWARD.

A FINE SIGHT.

FITTING SHIP.

BY-PLAY.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

AN ESCAPE.

EQUATOR.

TROPICAL SQUALLS.

TROPICAL THUNDER-STORM.

CHAPTER XXXV.

A REEF-TOPSAIL BREEZE.

SCURVY.

A FRIEND IN NEED.

PREPARING FOR PORT.

GULF STREAM.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

SOUNDINGS.

SIGHTS ABOUT HOME.

BOSTON HARBOR.

LEAVING THE SHIP.

TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AFTER.

Notes:

Originally published: Two years before the mast: a personal narrative. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1840.

ISBN:

1-58218-284-1

OCLC:

648371708