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Two years before the mast by richard henry dana, jr. Drawing from his journals, two years before the mast gives a vivid and detailed account, shrewdly observed and beautifully described, of a common sailors wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time. Two years before the mast is the first person narrative of a young man serving on a sailing ship in the 1830s. He was well educated in his youth and had started college before going to sea as an ordinary sailor. This is a breathtaking true story of adventure on the high seas. While at harvard college, dana had an attack of the measles, which.
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