Two Years Beore the nmast Author:Richard Henry Dana First written in 1830s, this copy pub. 1963. A unique autobiography: the portrait of a Harvard undergraduate who put off his tight frock coat and kid gloves for the loose ducks and checked shirt of an ordinary seaman. It is also the first book which reaisticaly depicted the roughly-treated, poorly-paid man in the forecastle, and heralded a mov... more »ement to imporve his lot. But it lives, above all, as a matchless tale of adventure.« less