Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

Informationen zum Autor Rod Scher is an experienced writer and editor with multiple books and dozens of magazine articles to his credit. The former editor of Smart Computing Magazine, Scher is also the author of Sailing by Starlight: The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star and Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology, and the editor/annotator of recent editions of Joshua Slocum's classic nautical memoir Sailing Alone Around the World and Richard Henry Dana's classic Two Years Before the Mast, all from Sheridan House Publishers. He lives in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Klappentext 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 ...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Henry Dana, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Richard Henry Dana Jr.
• Publisher: Sheridan House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781493075980
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-7598-0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Diaries, letters & journals, Biography: historical, political & military, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, North America, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / North America, maritime history, History of the Americas, North America (USA & Canada)