Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative

Contributor(s): Dana, Richard Henry (Author), Seelye, John (Introduction by), Davis, Wes (Afterword by)

ISBN: 9780451531254

Publisher: Signet Book

$7.95

Pub Date: April 7, 2009

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2010291342

Lexile Code: 1290

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.30" H x 6.50" L x 4.00" W ( 0.55 lbs) 432 pages

BISAC Categories:

Sports and Recreation | Water Sports | Sailing

Series: Signet Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000000721 ( Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative)

Reading level: 7.70

Interest level: UG

Point value: 26.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In 1834, Dana went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea. Revised reissue.

Review Quotes: "Possesses . . . the romantic charm of Robinson Crusoe."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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