Book
Two Years before the Mast
- Published
- 1840
- Genre
- Biography
- Publisher
- General Books LLC
- Pages
- 458
- Words
- 169612
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335397.Two_Years_Before_the_Mast?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1290L
While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway) and being something of a non-conformist, left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).
Collections
Harvard Classics
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781236710482
- ISBN-10
- 1236710487
Tags
BoatsHarvard ClassicsNatural Environments-Oceans/SeasUnited States-CaliforniaUnited States-MassachusettsWinnetka Graded Book List, 1926