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	Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born into one of the first families of Cambridge, Massachusetts, grandson of Francis Dana and attended Harvard College.
		He married Edith Longfellow who was the daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
		The point and city of Dana Point, California, located on the Pacific coast about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, is named for him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Henry_Dana,_Jr. (275 words)

	Richard Henry Dana jr. (1815-1882) Two Years Before The Mast (1840)
		Dana describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their exhausting work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European..
		Dana was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1867 to 1868.
		Dana is buried in Rome's Protestant Cemetery with Keats and Shelley.
	www.winthrop.dk /rhdana.html (2015 words)

	Before_the_Mast_Overnight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is written that Dana left his studies that year on the advice of his doctor to rest his eyes.
		Dana's book was unique in that it offered a glimpse of life aboard ship from the perspective of a common seaman.
		On his voyage, Dana experienced a bittersweet conflict of emotions in his relationship with the ocean and the Pilgrim - the beauty of the ocean and experiences of the voyage, mixed with the incredible hardships of life as an 1830's merchant sailor.
	www.ocean-institute.org /edu_programs/materials/P/PD/BTM/BTM_Bg.htm (892 words)

	Richard Henry Dana Jr - Issue 19, July 2002
		Dana and his shipmates led lives of harsh labour and unforgiving conditions, constantly subject to the omnipresent and absolute rule of the ship's master whose authority, routinely cruel, had no restraint or remedy.
		Dana soon grasped that, aboard the Pilgrim, he was under the command of a captain who administered floggings and enjoyed them.
		Dana successfully persuaded a court that seamen should be able to collect their wages if the ship, or any part of it, were saved.
	www.maritimeadvocate.com /i19_dana.php (1338 words)

	Dana, Richard Henry, Sr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Richard Henry Dana was born at Cambridge, on the fifteenth of November, 1787.
		Richard Henry Dana, Sr., a poet, essayist, and critic, was the son of Francis Dana, who served as chief justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
		Dana's son, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., was also a lawyer and writer.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/dana_sr.html (932 words)

	Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" - Introduction
		Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; yet the narrative in which he details the experiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide remembrance.
		But Dana was not a man to be swerved from his purpose by considerations of policy or of personal safety.
		That the government appreciated this was shown in 1867 by its choice of Dana as one of its counsel in the prosecution of Jefferson Davis for treason.
	www.geocities.com /~murphwillson/books/mast/mast-intro.html (2490 words)

	Pourade: Time of the Bells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dana was 19 years old, the son of a prominent Cambridge, Mass., family and a descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
		Dana was not a reformer, and though shocked at the injustice of floggings he witnessed aboard the Pilgrim, he himself blamed much of the troubles at sea on the sailors themselves, describing many of them as blasphemous and abandoned men.
		Dana said that a regulation of the port forbade any ballast to be thrown overboard, and accordingly the long boat was lined with rough boards and brought aside the gangway, but where one tubfull of ballast went into the boat, 20 went overboard - if nobody from the presidio was watching.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /books/pourade/time/timechapter14.htm (4399 words)

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		Dana rarely referred to his goals or qualities that resulted in him seeking the life of a seamen, a position usually accepted by the poorer classes, who usually did not possess the skills to create social change.
		Dana begun his new life miserable with seasickness and ignorant of the skills expected of a sailor, which were many.
		Dana reported that the crew was concerned that the captain might be afraid to give the order to make sail was navigating through ice chunks close to Cape Horn or that he may be unfit for duty from “free use of brandy and opium (Dana, p.
	home.sandiego.edu /~lauren3/history.html (2303 words)

	Encyclopedia: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
		Richard Henry Dana, American author of Two Years Before the Mast.
		Francis Dana (1743–1811) was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Massachusetts.
		Dana Point is a city located in southern Orange County, California.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Henry-Dana,-Jr. (902 words)

	Introductory Note. Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. 1909-14. Two Years before the Mast. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He came of a stock that had resided there since the days of the early settlements; his grandfather, Francis Dana, had been the first American minister to Russia and later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; his father was distinguished as a man of letters.
		On his return, Dana was appointed by Lincoln United States District Attorney for Massachusetts; and in his arguments before the Supreme Court in Washington in connection with the “Prize causes,” dealing with the capture of private property at sea in time of war, he greatly increased an already brilliant legal reputation.
		The record of Dana’s life agrees with the picture of his temperament which he unconsciously painted in his first and greatest book.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/23/1001.html (692 words)

	Two Years Before the Mast : A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Modern Library Classics): Current Amazon U.S.A. ...
		Dana was able to write in such a way as to re-create the life on board a sailing ship, down to the smallest details and that's what makes this book so real and touching.
		Dana's accurate and detailed narrative of his own life at sea on sailing ships in the 1830's, and his time spent on the coast of California,when it was true wilderness, is an unforgettable reading experience.
		Dana has a keen eye for detail and character, and tells his tale in a straightforward way that makes you feel that you are there with him experiencing what he does.
	www.ferretexpert.info /stuff-0375757945.html (2515 words)

	havana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dana describes his fellow passengers as a motely group, "shivering cubans, yankee shipmasters going out to join their 'cotton wagons', and other invalids wisely enough avoiding our March winds, and here and there a mere vacation- maker, like myself." Dana's quarters are one of the state rooms on the Cahawbas upper deck.
		Dana's ship brought news when it arrived that the bill had already passed the Senate and would probably pass the House, but Dana tells the bishop that he does not agree with this opinion.
		Dana says that the native Cubans have a desire for self government but are not able to express it because of the more powerful Spanish and Foreign interests.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CLASS/am485_97/travel/havana.html (668 words)

	Richard Henry Dana
		Richard Henry Dana, American writer and lawyer, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 1, 1815.
		Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels.
		Dana's writing provides a glimpse into San Diego history, describing Old Town as it was in 1835 and the "hide trade" (curing and trimming cattle hides for export) on Point Loma's La Playa.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /bio/dana/dana.htm (391 words)

	DANA POINT
		Dana Point is located between Los Angeles and San Diego on the Pacific Ocean.
		Dana Point is home to 36,850 residents and is characterized by nearly seven miles of prominent coastal bluffs and rolling hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
		Most noteworthy is a uniqe promontory known as the "Headlands" which overlooks Dana Harbor, one of the most significant man-made alterations of the Orange County coastline.
	www.pacificcoast-condo.com (159 words)

	STODDARD MSS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Stoddard mss., 1871-1877, are letters written to Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825-1903, author, and editor between 1871-1875 of The Aldine, a literary journal, chiefly in response to his request for materials for his book Poets' Homes, published in 1877.
		Richard Henry Dana, Jr., discusses the photographs of his father and his home, the best of which is in Putnam's Homes of American Authors, and makes reference to his father's works.
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is concerned about the writer for the sketch for the engraving and prefers George Washington Greene to William Dean Howells since he "is most familiar with the house." Mary Newmarch Prescott offers the lines "To a Blackbird" for publication in The Aldine.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/stoddard.html (289 words)

	Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A replica of Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s Brig Pilgrim is docked outside of the Orange County Marine Institute in Dana Point.
		Dana sailed to this harbor in the 1830s, and wrote about his experiences in his autobiographical narrative, “Two Years Before the Mast,” now a literary classic.
		A nine-foot bronze statue of Dana is erected in the harbor.
	www.vvdailypress.com /travel/danapoint (736 words)

	Childhood Notes
		Dana Street was the dividing line between "The Village" and "Cambridgeport" sections of Cambridge.
		The ode was Wordsworth's "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality." Richard Henry Dana, Jr., The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, "The Dana Saga," in Cambridge Historical Society Publications, Volume 26: Proceedings for the Year 1940, Cambridge, Mass., 1941, p.
	www.obtusebard.org /homer/WHOB_2_N.html (2440 words)

	The Accidental Masterpiece: A Profile of Richard Henry Dana Jr. - J.B. Cheaney
		But Dana's contrary streak asserted itself, not for the first or last time: he wore the loose-collared blouse and full tie of a common sailor.
		For Dana is best known today for the two unforgettable years that made a man of him.
		From 1640, when the first Richard Dana settled in Boston, the family included judges, teachers, lawyers, officeholders, and one Massachusetts supreme court justice.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/2000/december/Sa19215.htm (343 words)

	Dana Point History
		DANA POINT was named for Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of "Two Years Before The Mast".
		Dana was traveling aboard the brig Pilgrim, which at the time had to travel to California via Cape Horn and he stormy Strait of Magellan.
		The original community of Dana Point had its origins in a housing development scheme in the 1920s, part of which can still be seen in the unfinished cement foundation for a hotel and bar that rests above the Dana Point Harbor, and which today is the centerpiece of a park.
	www.bridgeguys.com /UGlossary/DPhistory.html (1883 words)

	Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut - Person Page 395
		was the son of Richard Henry Dana and Ruth Charlotte Smith.
		She was the daughter of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
		Richard Henry Dana was the son of Francis Dana and Elizabeth Ellery.
	www.holcombegenealogy.com /data/p395.htm (1675 words)

	Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Henry Dana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Boston.
		Dana attended Harvard (1831-1833), but left school in 1834 because of his failing eyesight.
		Richard H. Dana, Jr., Remarks of Richard H. Dana, Jr., esq.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/dana_rh.html (479 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The most conspicuous change to the area since Dana’s trip, one that probably would have caused him to rethink his compliment, is the creation of the harbor.
		Though it sails occasionally up the coast and returns to the Toshiba Tallships Festival, the vessel spends most of the year moored in the harbor and is used mainly as a living-history site for students, who sometimes have the opportunity to sleep there overnight.
		A celebration of some of the finest and tackiest objects to come out of or be inspired by the Pacific islands: Hawaiian shirtorama, Indonesian bamboo furniture, hula-girl bamboo curtains that shimmy in the breeze, and tikis (don’t tell the Bradys).
	www.ocweekly.com /printme.php?&eid=29279 (1826 words)

	Two years before the mast - INTRODUCTION
		Dana sailed, extracts from a log, and also plates of spars, rigging and sails, with names, to aid the reader.
		Dana re-wrote this account from the notebook, which, fortunately, he had not entrusted to the lost trunk.
		Dana not only presentation copies but as a voluntary honorarium, there being no international copyright law at that time, a sum of money larger than the publisher gave him for the manuscript.
	www.winthrop.dk /introduction.html (856 words)

	Richard Henry Dana Jr., Gary Kinder (Introduction) - Two Years Before the Mast : A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Two Years Before The Mast 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 a 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.
	bookpicker.com /book/0375757945/Two+Years+Before+the+Mast+:+A+Personal+Narrative+of+Life+at+Sea+(Modern+Library+Classics).html (147 words)

	Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sarah Watson Dana, May 28, 1869, from R.H.D. jr." The date 1834 is added in Mrs.
		Dana's hand after the word "August" in line one, page [1].
		In the text Dana himself added years to two other dates, changed one, and corrected a spelling error.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/pubs/howe/3rhd.htm (90 words)

	Twenty Four Years Later. Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. 1909-14. Two Years before the Mast. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Here, too, was Henry Mellus, who came out with me before the mast in the Pilgrim, and left the brig to be agent’s clerk on shore.
		Dana; but I soon stopped that, and we were shipmates once more.
		Henry Mellus, who had been in a counting-house in Boston, and left the forecastle, on the coast, to be agent’s clerk, and whom I met, a married man, at Los Angeles in 1859, died at that place a few years ago, not having been successful in commercial life.
	www.aol.bartleby.com /23/1004.html (8491 words)

	eBookPlaza :: Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and OtherVoyages (Library of America) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam.
		Written with an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous maritime literature, Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines and hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness and brutality of merchant ship captains and officers, and the beauty and danger of the southern oceans in winter.
		Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate.
	www.ebookplaza.info /1931082839/Richard_Henry_Dana_Jr__Two_Years_Before_the_Mast_and_OtherVoyages_Library_of_America.html (493 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Two Years Before the Mast: And Twenty-Four Years After (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dana was a Harvard student recovering from the measles when he decided it would be more interesting to do so at sea as a common sailor.
		Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and OtherVoyages (Library of America) by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
		Dana so perfectly described sea life you will be a part of the crew, you will feel his fear, his wonder, his joy and his awe.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1589761022?v=glance (921 words)

	Richard Henry Dana on San Francisco:"The Jews are a wealthy and powerful class here." - Stormfront White ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Dana discusses a colony of "Sandwich Islanders" in San Diego, 1840 from Two Years Before the Mast (pp.
		Dana discussing San Francisco in a post-script for the 1859 edition of Two Years Before the Mast (p.
		The son of the author of the influential Two Years Before the Mast, Dana denounced a Massachusetts usury law as one that would benefit "only the Jews emerging from their alleys." (Speech before Massachusetts Legislature in 1868.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=85682 (708 words)

	Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Biography / Biography of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Main Biography
		In the same year Two Years before the Mast was published by Harper and Brothers, and though the publisher had deftly lifted the copyright (paying Dana just $250), the author hoped that the book would at least bring him some law practice.
		Dana's hopes were realized--indeed his office filled with sailors and he became known as the "Seaman's Champion"--and he eventually shap.....
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-richard-henry-dana-jr (222 words)

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