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	Two Years Before the Mast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
		He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and after returning he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, the same year of his admission to the bar.
		The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors — in the forecastle, in the front of the ship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Two_Years_Before_the_Mast (622 words)

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		Before leaving this description, however, I would state, in order to show landsmen how little they know of the nature of a ship, that a ship-carpenter is kept in constant employ during good weather on board vessels which are in, what is called, perfect sea order.
		Two of our crew, who remained on board, caught in a few minutes enough to last us for several days, and one of the men, who was a Marblehead man, said that he never saw or heard of such an abundance.
		The two men at the bows kept their places; and when, at length, a large sea came in and floated her, seized hold of the gunwales, and ran out with her till they were up to their armpits, and then tumbled over the gunwale into the bows, dripping with water.
	www.boater.com /books/mast/mast.txt (21060 words)

	Richard Henry Dana jr. (1815-1882) Two Years Before The Mast (1840) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two years before the mast is an exciting narrative of a young man's voyage as a common seaman from Boston to California and back in the age of sail.
		Two Years Before the Mast is a vivid account of the common sailor’s wretched treatment at sea.
		Two years before the mast and Dana's lectures were important elements in the process of reform.
	www.winthrop.dk /rhdana.html (2015 words)

	TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST
		Before leaving this description, however, I would state, in order to show landsmen how little they know of the nature of a ship, that a ship-carpenter is kept constantly employed, during good weather, on board vessels which are in what is called perfect sea order.
		Two of our crew, who remained on board, caught in a short time enough to last us for several days, and one of the men, who was a Marblehead man, said that he never saw or heard of such an abundance.
		The two men remained standing at the bows; and when, at length, a large sea came in and floated her, seized hold of the gunwales, and ran out with her till they were up to their armpits, and then tumbled over the gunwales into the bows, dripping with water.
	www.fdungan.com /mast.htm (19151 words)

	Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s Two Years Before the Mast (Project Gutenberg edition in HTML)
		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.
		The position of legal representative before the Halifax tribunal of 1877, which met to discuss fishery questions at issue between the United States and Canada, was given him no doubt in part because of his eminent fitness, in part as balm for the wound of the preceding year.
		The supposition was that in the course of years the Indians might become so habituated to thrift and industry as to be released from supervision and safely left to their own devices.
	www.du.edu /~ttyler/ploughboy/pgtwoyearsbeforethemast.htm (18048 words)

	Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana : Arthur's Classic Novels
		Two Years before the Mast appeared in 1840, while its author was still a law student.
		Hence, of late years, Californians have come to feel a worthy pride in the monuments of the early history of their state, and have taken steps to preserve such of them as survive.
		Just before eight o'clock, (then about sun-down, in that latitude,) the cry of "All hands ahoy!" was sounded down the fore scuttle and the after hatchway, and hurrying upon deck, we found a large fl cloud rolling on toward us from the south-west, and flening the whole heavens.
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	Amazon.ca: Two Years Before the Mast (Pacemaker Abridged): Books: Globe Fearon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two Years Before the Mast is the voice of the ordinary seaman from one who was there. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		The two years before the mast tells the story of Henry Dana's two years as a sailor during a journey from the America East Coast to the distant land of California via Cape Horn.
		Two Years Before the Mast is one of my favorite books in the world.
	www.amazon.ca /Years-Before-Mast-Pacemaker-Abridged/dp/0881035041 (1978 words)

	Two years before the mast - SEVENTY-SIX YEARS AFTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Years Before the Mast," I met a nephew of Captain Thompson at Santa Barbara.
		I was strong and athletic after a year as stroke of the Freshman crew and three years as stroke of the University crew at Harvard.
		Two years later, broken now in health, but with his mind vigorous, he resolved to give up the practice of law and devote himself to writing a work on international law.
	www.winthrop.dk /seventyfive.html (5189 words)

	WannaLearn: Two Years Before the Mast
		This class of sailor sleeps in a communal room forward of the main mast called the forecastle, or "focsle," thus the "...before the mast" in the title.
		As recounted by others, this is the self-told history of an American university student who went to sea, around the Horn to California and back, for two years in the late 1830's, spending several months on the California coast collecting hides.
		In its time, its impact was due to the revelation to the public of the hard life of the common seaman and its description of California when that land was under Mexican rule.
	www.wannalearn.com /Classic_Literature/Young_Teens/0899664261.shtml (343 words)

	University of Delaware: TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE MAST: Personal Narratives
		Two Years Before the Mast, published the year of his admission to the bar, was written from notes made during his journey.
		In 1878, two brothers, William A. and Asa Walter Andrews, made a daring crossing of the Atlantic in a shallow, twenty foot, single sailed dory called the Nautilus.
		The two volumes are extensively illustrated with watercolors, drawings, sketches, and maps.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/voyages/narrat.htm (1297 words)

	Amazon.com: Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Modern Library Classics): Books: Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages (Library of America) by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
		Two Years before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana; Jr.
		Not many would give up comfort and privelege, but for two years, Dana served as a common sailor, given no special treatment as the gentleman he was, and lived in the forecastle of the Alert, eating the mess of salt beef and common hardtack, risking his life and serving under a captain crueler than most.
	www.amazon.com /Two-Years-Before-Mast-Narrative/dp/0375757945 (2252 words)

	Two years before the mast - TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AFTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This journal was of 1859 before Colonel Robert E. Lee became the celebrated General Lee in command of the Confederate forces in the Civil War.
		Every year new square miles of ground are laid down to vineyards, and the Pueblo promises to be the centre of one of the largest wine-producing regions in the world.
		I also met--a revival on the spot of an acquaintance of twenty years ago--Don Guadalupe Vallejo; I may say acquaintance, for although I was then before the mast, he knew my story, and, as he spoke English well, used to hold many conversations with me, when in the boat or on shore.
	www.winthrop.dk /twentyfour.html (8979 words)

	University of Delaware: TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE MAST: Circumnavigations
		Before 1800, voyages around the world were conducted for a number of reasons, but particularly for military and paramilitary expeditions, privateering ventures, and expanding influence and control over trade routes and markets.
		His memoir of this voyage was published in 1697, and saw three more editions in less than two years.
		Dampier was given command for two more voyages, one to New Holland in 1699, and the other his second circumnavigation 1703 -1706, in the course of which he was present for Alexander Selkirk's voluntary abandonment on Juan Fernandez Island.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/voyages/circum.htm (1471 words)

	Two Years Before the Mast excerpt
		Just before midnight a light land breeze sprang up, which carried us well along; and at four o’clock, thinking ourselves to the northward of Race Point, we hauled upon the wind and stood into the bay, west-north-west, for Boston light, and began firing guns for a pilot.
		As we drew in toward the mouth of the harbour, as toward a focus, the vessels began to multiply, until the bay seemed alive with sails gliding about in all directions; some on the wind, and others before it, as they were bound to or from the emporium of trade and centre of the bay.
		It was a stirring sight for us, who had been months on the ocean without seeing anything but two solitary sails; and over two years without seeing more than the three or four traders on an almost desolate coast.
	stellwagen.nos.noaa.gov /gallery/twoyears.html (290 words)

	0005--TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dana entered Harvard College in 1831; but near the beginning of his third year an attack of measles left his eyesight so weak that study was impossible.
		His experiences for the next two years form the subject of the book.
		The merit of Two Year's Before the Mast was recognized in both America and England immediately after its appearance, and it at once took rank as the most vivid and accurate picture in literature of the side of life it sought to portray.
	www.dngoodchild.com /0005.htm (195 words)

	Amazon.de: Two Years Before the Mast (Signet Classics (Paperback)): English Books: Richard Henry Dana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Overall, you get the sense that he spent two years in almost unceasing toil, and that life as a sailor in those days was not one that anyone today would envy.
		In this chapter he returns to California 24 yrs later and writes about all the changes that have occurred since he was last there, a lot due to the fact of the gold rush.
		He also goes into some detail on the whereabouts of his former crewmates and the two ships that he sailed on while on his adventure.
	www.amazon.de /Years-Before-Signet-Classics-Paperback/dp/0451527593 (1123 words)

	Richard Henry Dana
		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.
		Two Years Before the Mast is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea.
		The Library of Congress has a digital edition of Two Years Before the Mast which includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /bio/dana/dana.htm (391 words)

	Amazon.com: Two Years Before the Mast: And Twenty-Four Years After: Books: Richard Henry Dana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Buy this book with Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Modern Library Classics) by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
		Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Modern Library Classics) by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
		Occassionally the text bogs down in obscure sailing terms, but that is an exception and not a rule, otherwise, it is sheer poetry and lights the fire of wonder of exploration, and makes a sea voyage from almost 200 years ago spring to life.
	www.amazon.com /Two-Years-Before-Mast-Twenty-Four/dp/1589761022 (1110 words)

	TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST
		After speaking the Carolina, on the 21st August, nothing occurred to break the monotony of our life until- Friday, September 5th, when we saw a sail on our weather (starboard) beam.
		He was six feet high, wore thick cowhide boots, and brown coat and trowsers, and, except a sun-burnt complexion, had not the slightest appearance of a sailor; yet he had been forty years in the whale trade, and, as he said himself, had owned ships, built ships, and sailed ships.
		We got clear of the island before sunrise the next morning, and by twelve o'clock were out of the canal, and off Point Conception, the place where we first made the land upon our arrival.
	www.nightscribe.com /Sports_Recreation/2Y_before_mast.htm (20918 words)

	Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - Project Gutenberg
		Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - Project Gutenberg
		Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
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	Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea; Author: Dana, Richard Henry; Editor: Philbrick, Thomas; ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea; Author: Dana, Richard Henry; Editor: Philbrick, Thomas; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
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