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Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea. [Chapters 1-7].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terry, Job, 1783-.
- Death.
- Diet.
- Discipline.
- Food.
- Fur trade.
- Motion sickness.
- Nature.
- Navigation.
- Pirates.
- Sailors.
- Seafaring life.
- Superstition.
- Chile--Cape Horn.
- Falkland Islands.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Pacific Ocean--Juan Fernández Islands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1840.
- Summary:
- Original manuscript of Two Years Before the Mast, which describes Dana's experience as a common sailor in the American merchant service and is based on a journal kept during the two-year voyage.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: Special Collections - Dana; E 187
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Massachusetts Historical Society catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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