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Two Years Before The Mast (Pocket Classics, C34)
Two Years Before The Mast - Pocket Classics, C34 Author:Richard Henry Dana, John Norwood Fago (Adapter), E. R. Cruz (Illustrator) Pocket Classics are not "comic books"...they are small "paperback" books (61 pages). They are illustrated retellings of classic stories in B&W comic book type artwork. They all use the interior B&W artwork from the 1970's Pendulum Classics series in a slightly smaller format. — Two Years Before the Mast ... more »is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.
While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway) and being something of a non-conformist, left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).
He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and after returning he wrote a recognized American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, the same year of his admission to the bar. « less