Two Years Before the Mast [Christmas Summary Classics] - Softcover

Dana, Richard Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494887541 ISBN 13: 9781494887544

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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Christmas Summary Classics This series contains summary of Classic books such as Emma, Arne, Arabian Nights, Pride and prejudice, Tower of London, Wealth of Nations etc. Each book is specially crafted after reading complete book in less than 30 pages. One who wants to get joy of book reading especially in very less time can go for it. About The Book RICHARD HENRY DANA Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 1, 1815. He was the son of the American poet who, with W.C. Bryant, founded "The North American Review," and grandson of Francis Dana, for some time United States Minister to Russia, and afterwards Chief Justice of Massachusetts. Young Dana entered Harvard in 1832, but being troubled with an affection of the eyes, shipped as a common sailor on board an American merchant vessel, and made a voyage round Cape Horn to California and back. His experiences are embodied in his "Two Years Before the Mast," which was published in 1840, about three years after his return, when he had graduated at Harvard, and in the year in which he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. His best known work gives a vivid account of life at sea in the days of the old sailing ships, touches sympathetically on the hardships of the seafaring life, which its publication helped to ameliorate, and affords also an intimate glimpse of California when it was still a province of Mexico. "If," he writes, "California ever becomes a prosperous country, this--San Francisco--bay will be the centre of its prosperity." He died at Rome on January 7, 1882. For more eBooks visit www.kartindo.com

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1494887541
• ISBN 13: 9781494887544
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 28