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1	Two Years Before the Mast more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. This work provides an account of the author's five month journey around Cape Horn in 1834 as an ordinary seaman. It clearly and graphically recounts the harsh conditions of life at sea, from storms to floggings and the larger-than-life characters of the captains and crews. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. A young man tells of his experiences as a common sailor and provides a realistic portrait of the brutal life of nineteenth-century seamen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Two years before the mast and Twenty-four years after more books like this by Richard Henry Dana On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
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5	Two years before the mast a personal narrative more books like this by Richard Henry Dana In 1834, a young Harvard man signed on as a common seaman for a perilous voyage around Cape Horn to California. During the next two years he kept a daily journal that endures as one of the most vivid recreations of life at sea ever published. New Introduction by John Seelye. Afterword by Wright Morris. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.94! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages: Two Years Before the Mast/To Cuba and Back/Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Together for the first time: Two Years Before the Mast, the thrilling nautical classic by one of America's first and greatest travel writers, along with hard-to-find narratives of Dana's later journeys to Cuba and Asia. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $20.00! \| SVS
7	To Cuba & Back more books like this by Richard Henry Dana During the mid 19th century the US Senate entertained a bill to expand South and annex Cuba, to become not only a Caribbean empire but the greatest slaveholding nation in history. The 1860 publication of To Cuba and Back detailing, in Dana's words, .the despotic civil government, compulsory religion uniformity, and slavery.. changed many minds. ... see all copies from $8.68! new only from $8.68! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The journal of Richard Henry Dana Jr more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Robert Francis Lucid see all copies from $10.00! new only from $143.25! \| first editions
9	Two Years by Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Poems & Prose Writings more books like this by Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $23.82! new only from $108.15! \| first editions
11	The Seaman's Friend: A Treatise on Practical Seamanship more books like this by Richard Henry Dana An authentic look at the standard operating procedures aboard a 19th-century ship by the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," from tying knots to quelling a mutiny. Glossary. see all copies from $5.47! new only from $8.56! \| SVS
12	The Seaman's Friend more books like this by Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $25.95! new only from $25.95! \| first editions
13	A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech more books like this by Samuel Leech, Michael Crawford (Introduction by), Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Introduction by) First published in 1834, Samuel Leech's autobiographical account of his adventures on British and U.S. frigates offers not only entertaining action but an astute observation of the harsh rigors and traditions of naval life during the early nineteenth century. The author's graphic description of constant lashings helped fuel the reform movement ... see all copies from $19.99! first editions
14	Two Years Before the Mast: 2a Personal Narrative of Life at Sea more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Jr Dana On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
15	Hospitable England in the Seventies: The Diary of a Young American 1875-1876 by Richard H Dana The adventures and experiences of a young American in England in the mid 1870s. Illustrated. Originally published in 1921. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $17.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	Two years before the mast; or, A sailor's life at sea more books like this by Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $12.95!
17	Two Years Before the Mast more books like this by Arthur Addison (Narrator), Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $7.50! new only from $77.19!
18 view cover	The Trent Affair: An Aftermath (1912) by Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $12.34! new only from $12.34! \| SVS
19	Two Years Before the Mast more books like this by John N Fago (Editor), Richard Henry Dana, Ernesto Cruz (Illustrator) On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ... see all copies from $4.99! SVS
20 view cover	Richard Henry Dana, JR.: Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son (1910) by Richard Henry Dana Jr, Richard H Dana III (Editor) see all copies from $32.25! new only from $32.25! \| SVS
21 view cover	Poems and Prose Writings. Vol. 1 more books like this by Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $28.69! new only from $28.69! \| SVS
22	Two Years Before the Mast, Large-Print Edition more books like this by Richard Henry Dana Tracing an awe-inspiring ocean journey from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and an eloquent, insightful account of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. At the young age of nineteen, Richard Henry Dana abandoned the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for ... see all copies from $20.28! new only from $20.28! \| SVS
23	The Buccaneer & Other Poems by Richard Henry Dana see all copies from $150.00!
24	Two Years Before the Mast Readalong more books like this by Richard Henry Dana On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ... see all copies from $13.43!
25 view cover	Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son by Richard Henry Dana (Editor) see all copies from $27.50! new only from $32.25! \| SVS

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