Description: Two Years Before the Mast is a classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works like Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As he follows Richard Henry Dana Jr. (a Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America (encountering racial injustices ...
Review Quotes: An enjoyable and fascinating look at a [classic]. The modern reader navigating Dana's story is given a global view in retrospect, which adds much to Dana's narrative and offers a glimpse of the views and opinions of that time and place. Scher's The AnnotatedTwo Years Before the Mast takes a classic tome and repackages it with seafaring terms defined and historical references in place, thereby transforming it into a gripping tale for any avid sailor, history buff, or literary aficionado to enjoy.