Two Years Before the Mast 1947 Heritage Press Hardcover Sailor Nautical Theme

Description: Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. Dana left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later. He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote this classic. The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors, in the forecastle, in the front of the ship. This 'complete' version contains maps of his voyages, an introduction, notes written 24 and 76 years after the voyage, and diagrams of sailing ships. T HE life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., the author of Two Years Before the Mast, is one of the strangest in the history of literature. To produce a classic, a minor masterpiece, in his early twenties, and to live nearly half a century after its publication without writing anything further which can be regarded as a comparable production, is surely a remarkable destiny for the author of a great book. It is the aim of the present introduction to indicate briefly the unusual circumstances of Dana's career, to note his heredity and environment, and to offer a tentative explanation of his withdrawal from authorship. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., was the son of Richard Henry Dana and Ruth Charlotte Smith. He was bom in 1815 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his forbears had been settled for many generations. The first Richard Dana was born there in 1640. His grandson, also Richard, the great-grandfather of Richard Henry, Jr., married Miss Trowbridge, the sister of an eminent colonial judge. Their son, Francis Dana, born in 1743, married Elizabeth Ellery. Francis was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1779. He was later first American Minister to Russia, and culminated his career as a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Richard Henry Dana, Sr., his son, a gentle, ineffectual dilettante, who wrote poetry and lived

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