In 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea-and still rings true as a portrayal of man's endurance.
The Oxford Book of American Essays : Walking, Americanism in Literature, Our March to Washington, I Talk of Dreams, Colonialism in USA…
Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Richard Henry Dana, Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, William Peterfield Trent
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The Oxford Book of American Essays : Walking, Americanism in Literature, Our March to Washington, I Talk of Dreams, Colonialism in USA…
Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Richard Henry Dana, Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, William Peterfield Trent
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The Seaman's Friend : Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service
Richard Henry Dana
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To Cuba and Back
Richard Henry Dana
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Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana
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To Cuba and Back
Richard Henry Dana
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The Seaman's Friend : Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service
Richard Henry Dana
book
The Oxford Book of American Essays
Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Francis Hopkinson, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau, William Peterfield Trent
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