Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.
by DANA, Richard Henry, Jr
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About This Item
Early edition. Small octavo. 483pp. Original full brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Some foxing throughout, edges bumped, spine chipped on top and bottom with rubbing to extremities. A good copy.
"Dana, a man of great energy, wrote Two Years before the Mast and taught elocution at Harvard while attending classes there. His book, published in 1840, was an immediate success in the United States and in England, and it permanently influenced works about the sea, making their authors both more realistic about and also more cognizant of the common sailor's plight. About thirty books with titles echoing Dana's were published by 1860. The most notable literary beneficiary was Herman Melville, who in Chapter 24 of White-Jacket (1850) calls Two Years before the Mast "unmatchable" and whose Moby-Dick (1851) shows several traces of its influence. " (American National Biography).
BAL 4434.
HBS 66334.
$200.
Synopsis
John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain at the Movies , Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Literature , Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic , Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock , and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism . He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.
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- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66334
- Title
- Two Years Before the Mast
- Author
- DANA, Richard Henry, Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1841
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Californiana|Nineteenth-Century Literature|Zamorano Eighty
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