| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 31 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Bernard Mayes. |
| Summary |
Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." It is a book which influenced Conrad and Melville, and it has become a maritime classic which has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea. Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brig Pilgrim for a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. (Hence Dana Point was named). Drawing from his journals, Two Years Before the Mast gives a vivid and detailed account, shrewdly observed and beautifully described, of a common sailor's wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels.
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Seafaring life.
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Sailors.
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California -- Description and travel.
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| Genre |
Sea stories.
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| Added Author |
Mayes, Bernard.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
2 years before the mast |
| ISBN |
9781982477080 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982477083 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10077632 |
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