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Two Years Before the Mast.

Jr Richard Henry Dana

出版	Independently Published, 2019-10-19
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Classics
ISBN	17011088529781701108851
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bKy7ywEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.BackgroundWhile an undergraduate at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, 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, aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and, after returning, he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840