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Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, manuscript page 37

Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, manuscript page 37 Manuscript
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Manuscript by Richard Henry Dana, 1840

25.5 cm x 20.1 cm


[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

After eye trouble forced him to abandon his studies at Harvard, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., took to the sea, joining a two-year trading voyage along the California coast. Dana based his immensely popular book, Two Years Before the Mast, on the journal he kept at sea from 1834 to 1836.