Author: Richard Henry DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Two Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
My Year Before the Mast
Author: Annette Brock DavisPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0888822073
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A memoir of Annette Brock Daviss life at sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line.
Four Years Before the Mast
Author: Joseph A. WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780989939416
Category : Nautical training-schools
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Under New York City's Throgs Neck Bridge lies a spit of land dominated by a pentagonal, 19th-century fortress that today houses a school that has trained mariners since the age of sail. Within Fort Schuyler's walls are stories of heroism and mutinies, shipwrecks and desertions. In Four Years Before the Mast, author Joseph A. Williams uses his access to archival materials to tell the tale of that institution known today as SUNY Maritime College.
The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry DanaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1574093193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America, he annotates Dana’s tale with critiques, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of Dana’s time.
Dreamers Before the Mast
Author: John KerrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Book is the explanation of the intensity of bonding between people and ships
Slavish Shore
Author: Jeffrey L. AmestoyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088190
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer’s memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s determination to keep that vow.
20 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST PB
Author: Charles ErskinePublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In 1838, seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world. Here he shares his adventures as a sailor as he traveled to unexplored regions of the world.
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Author: Michael M. LewisPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393048136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.
Before the Mast
Author: Julie GardinerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781842175040
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Mary Rose carried a crew of naval officers and sailors, a fighting force of gunners and soldiers, a Barber-surgeon, several ship's carpenters and skilled navigators. Of nearly 500 men, fewer than 40 survived the sinking on 19th July 1545. Trapped by netting, or below deck, they stood little chance, and their bodies and belongings went to the bottom of the sea. Excavation of the hull and contents produced a huge collection of objects that together make up a detailed picture of what life was like on board. Before the Mast explores how the men of the Mary Rose lived, through their surviving possessions; how they were fed; their music and recreation, medicine and provision for illness and injury, as well as working practices: carpentry and maintenance, stowage, navigation and ship's communications. The personal possessions of the crew included religious items, books, fishing lines and weights, sewing kits, money, hair combs, jewelry, knives, musical instruments and many items of clothing. The Barber-surgeon, who had his own cabin, brought on board a fine chest filled with canisters, bottles and pots of ointment and medicines, a variety of surgical instruments and a fine set of razors. Another cabin nearby was clearly occupied by the ship's carpenters whose toolkit included planes, adzes, axes, hammers and drills, as well as pitch pots and special mallets for patching up leaks in the ship's hull. The ship's navigators had the best in sixteenth century compasses. The ship's galley was in the hold and this area in particular produced many examples of wooden and pewter plates, bowls, pots, bread troughs, and tankards, as well as barrels and baskets still containing beef, pork, fish and fruit. The volume also includes an analysis of the human remains providing evidence for the stature and age range of the men most were under 30 their health, and injuries sustained. Before the Mast is now available again in a two volume edition published by Oxbow Books.
Two Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.