Two Years Before the Mast. E-book. Formato Mobipocket - 9788822802217

Two Years Before the Mast. E-book. Formato Mobipocket. 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. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.<br /><br />The term &quot;before the mast&quot; refers to the quarters of the common sailors, in the forecastle, in the front of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes. He later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party.<br /><br />In the book, which takes place between 1834 and 1836, Dana gives a vivid account of &quot;the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is&quot;. He sails from Boston to South America and around Cape Horn to California. Dana&#39;s ship was on a voyage to trade goods from the United States for the Mexican colonial Californian California missions&#39; and ranchos&#39; cow hides. They traded at the ports in San Diego Bay, San Pedro Bay, Santa Barbara Channel, Monterey Bay, and San Francisco Bay.<br /><br />Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen.