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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reproduction of the original: The Seaman's Friend by R.H Jr Dana

Reproduction of the original: The Seaman's Friend by R.H Jr Dana

Excerpt from Two Years Before the Mast: Or a Voice From the Forecastle, An Authentic Narrative of Sailors Life at SeaAfter twenty-eight years, the copyright of this book has te verted to me. In presenting the first author's edition' to the public, I have been encouraged to add an account of a visit to the Old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together with no tices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the persons...

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Excerpt from Two Years Before the Mast: Or a Voice From the Forecastle, An Authentic Narrative of Sailors Life at Sea After twenty-eight years, the copyright of this book has te verted to me. In presenting the first author's edition' to the public, I have been encouraged to add an account of a visit to the Old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together with no tices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the perso...

A detailed, almost daily, record giving an accurate and authentic narrative of over two years in the life of a common sailor before the mast in the American merchant service of the early 1800s. The book is written in journal fashion in the words of an ordinary sailor on the brig "Pilgrim" on her voyage from Boston, round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and...