Authors: Richard Henry Dana, Wes Davis (Afterword), John Seelye
ISBN-13: 9780451531254, ISBN-10: 0451531256
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: April 2009
Edition: Reprint
Gary Kinder is the author of Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. He lives in Seattle.
Two Years Before The Mast is a wonderful, elegantly written adventure classic that is still enjoyable more than one hundred years after its original publication. This is Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s account of his life as a common seaman aboard the brig the Pilgrim which set out from Boston on August 14, 1835 destined for California by way of the treacherous Cape Horn. Dana gives an engrossing, detailed account of the workings of the ship, the day-to-day routines of the deck hands, and the brutal shortcomings of inept, tyrannical officers. This “author’s edition” includes a chapter written by Dana twenty-four years after his initial voyage where he revisits some of the people, places and vessels that he had encountered on his original journey.
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Chapter I. | ||
Departure | ||
First Impressions | ||
Ship's Duties | ||
Chapter II. | ||
First Impressions | ||
Ship's Duties | ||
Chapter III. | ||
Ship's Duties | ||
Chapter IV. | ||
Sundays At Sea | ||
Trouble on Board | ||
Land Ho | ||
A Pampero | ||
Cape Horn | ||
Chapter V. | ||
Cape Horn | ||
A Visit | ||
Chapter VI. | ||
Loss Of a Man | ||
Chapter VII. | ||
Superstitions | ||
Juan Fernandez | ||
Putting the Vessel In Order | ||
Chapter VIII. | ||
Painting | ||
Daily Life | ||
Point Conception | ||
Chapter IX. | ||
Santa Barbara | ||
Beach-Combing | ||
A Southeaster | ||
Chapter X. | ||
A Southeaster | ||
Passage Up the Coast | ||
Chapter XI. | ||
Passage Up the Coast | ||
Monterey | ||
Chapter XII. | ||
Monterey | ||
Chapter XIII. | ||
Monterey | ||
A British Sailor | ||
Santa Barbara | ||
Chapter XIV. | ||
Hide Droghing | ||
Discontent | ||
San Pedro | ||
Flogging | ||
Chapter XV. | ||
Flogging | ||
Night On Shore | ||
State of Things On Board | ||
San Diego | ||
Chapter XVI. | ||
Liberty-Day On Shore | ||
Chapter XVII. | ||
San Diego | ||
Desertion | ||
San Pedro Again | ||
Easter Sunday | ||
Chapter XVIII. | ||
Easter Sunday | ||
Italian Sailors | ||
San Juan | ||
San Diego Again | ||
Life on Shore | ||
Chapter XIX. | ||
Sandwich-Islanders | ||
Hide-Curing | ||
Wood-Cutting | ||
Coyotes | ||
Rattlesnakes | ||
Chapter XX. | ||
New Comers | ||
People at the Hide-Houses | ||
Leisure | ||
Pilgrim News from Home | ||
Pilgrim Occupations on the Beach | ||
California and its Inhabitants | ||
Chapter XXI. | ||
California and its Inhabitants | ||
Chapter XXII. | ||
Life on the Beach | ||
The Alert | ||
Chapter XXIII. | ||
New Ship and Shipmates | ||
A Race | ||
My Watchmate, Tom Harris | ||
San Diego Again | ||
Chapter XXIV. | ||
A Descent | ||
A Hurried Departure | ||
A New Shipmate | ||
Chapter XXV. | ||
Rumors of War | ||
A Spouter | ||
Sudden Slipping for a Southeaster | ||
To Windward | ||
A Dry Gale | ||
Chapter XXVI. | ||
San Francisco | ||
Monterey Revisited | ||
Chapter XVII. | ||
Monterey Revisited | ||
A Set-to | ||
A Decayed Gentleman | ||
A Contrabandista | ||
A Fandango | ||
Chapter XVIII. | ||
A Victim | ||
California Rangers-Beach-Combers | ||
News From Home | ||
Last Looks | ||
Chapter XXIX. | ||
Loading for Home | ||
A Surprise | ||
Last of an Old Friend | ||
The Last Hide | ||
A Hard Case | ||
An Anchor, for Home! | ||
The Alert and California | ||
Homeward Bound | ||
Chapter XXX. | ||
Homeward Bound | ||
Our Passenger, Professor Nuttall | ||
Homeward Bound | ||
Chapter XXXI. | ||
Bad Prospects | ||
First Touch of Cape Horn | ||
Iceburgs | ||
Temperance Ships | ||
Lying-Up | ||
Ice | ||
Difficulty on Board | ||
Change of Course | ||
Straits of Magellan | ||
Chapter XXXII. | ||
Ice Again | ||
Disappointment | ||
Cape Horn | ||
Land Ho! | ||
Chapter XXXIII. | ||
Cracking On | ||
Progress Homeward | ||
A Fine Sight | ||
Fitting Ship | ||
By-Plane | ||
Chapter XXXIV. | ||
An Escape | ||
Equator | ||
Tropical Squalls | ||
Tropical Thunder-Storm | ||
Chapter XXXV. | ||
A Reef-Topsail Breeze | ||
Scurvy | ||
A Friend in Need | ||
Preparing for Port | ||
Gulf Stream | ||
Chapter XXXVI. | ||
Soundings | ||
Sights About Home | ||
Boston Harbo | ||
Leaving the Ship | ||
Twenty Four Years After | 432 |