Two Years Before The Mast : By Richard Henry Dana

Book info: Two Years Before The Mast : By Richard Henry Dana (Hardcover, 270 pages – CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) – CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Language: Eng.

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Why buy our paperbacks?Unabridged (100% Original content)Printed in USA on High Quality Paper30 Days Money Back GuaranteeStandard Font size of 10 for all booksFulfilled by AmazonExpedited shippingBEWARE OF LOW-QUALITY SELLERSDon't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. About Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana 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 starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946. The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors — in the forecastle, in the front of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes; he later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. Dana did not set out to write Two Years Before the Mast as a sea adventure, but to highlight how poorly common sailors were treated on ships. It quickly became a best seller.