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A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946. This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history. Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.That's where the working slugs who earned their paltry pay in the age of sail gathered to take their rations of salt beef and biscuit in tin pots and to sleep through the roar of breaking seas overhead, or the soft chuckle of wavelets lapping at the bow on blissful nights when the wind was fair and the moon shone silver. He'd been hardened and made wise by his experiences in the dim, grim, unpainted, lamplit forecastle. If he left home unfinished, he was a man in full by the time he came back, with sight restored and a keen eye for the merits of men. Sage American History by Henry Sage, First Across the Continent by Noah Brooks, and either Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look. He wasn't yet a man himself, just a 20-year-old undergraduate with a vision problem that medics of the era thought might be cured by a good, long turn on the ocean blue. Thank you very much for reading Two Years Before The Mast A Sailors Life At Sea Richard Henry Dana Jr. knew when he set off from Boston as an ordinary seaman in 1835 on the brig Pilgrim, bound for California via Cape Horn. That's not something Richard Henry Dana Jr. Nowhere can you take the measure of a man more accurately than at sea. Portrait of American Lawyer and Author Richard Henry Dana, ca.
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