Two Years Before the Mast |
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| Author:
| Dana, Richard Henry |
| ISBN: | 979-8-6342-4114-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2020 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.99 |
Book Description:
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Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway) and being something of a non-conformist, 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 aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).
Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway) and being something of a non-conformist, 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 aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).