Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard H. Dana Jr.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/65166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea Author: Richard H. Dana Jr. Narrator: Hal Saunders Format: mp3 Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins Release date: 12-04-19 Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars, 7 ratings Genres: Water Sports Publisher's Summary: Two Years Before the Mast is an 1840 memoir by the author Richard Henry Dana. A Harvard graduate, he spent the years 1834 to 1836 as a sailor on a merchant ship on a voyage from Boston to California. The journey took them past Cape Horn on the Tierra del Fuego archipelago where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet. Dana provides detailed descriptions of ship life and the technical aspects of sailing. A chapter on California and its inhabitants offers valuable historical insights on the state which was then a foreign land.