![]() ![]() The reward for these travails is getting to see the “almost unknown” and unimaginably quiet California coast. is best known as the author of the American classic memoir Two Years Before the Mast, a book that was highly influential in improving the living and working conditions of seamen. When the skins are caught among the trees, Dana is lowered down the face of the bluff to retrieve them. raised high into the air and then plunged below again.” Dana’s voyage includes months of toil collecting and curing cowhides at one stop, the hides must be tossed from a ridge down a 400-foot bluff from the ranch above to the waiting ship below. Boyd Smith (Illustrator) 591 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.39 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 17.77 19 Used from 5.49 12 New from 17.77 2 Collectible from 17. ![]() “We hardly knew whether we were on or off when the boom lifting us up. Two Years Before The Mast Library Binding Januby Jr. “The vessel, diving into two huge seas, one after the other, plunged us twice into the water up to our chins,” he writes. In “Two Years Before the Mast,” he records the harrowing details of life at sea as the crew outruns pirates, loses a sailor overboard (“like losing a limb”) and faces treacherous storms. leaves Harvard in 1834 and enlists as a seaman on a brig sailing from Boston to California by way of Cape Horn. To improve his failing eyesight, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ![]() Photo: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images Two Years Before the Mastġ. ![]() A pair of white rhinoceros graze with the peak of Mount Kenya in the background. ![]()
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