Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Penguin Classics) by Richard Henry Dana lament which he wrote as well

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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Penguin Classics) by Richard Henry Dana lament which he wrote as wellIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life: the day to day routines and conversations, the sailors who manned the ship, the brutality of incompetent officers, and the style of life in the newly emerging coastal towns of