• Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - front cover and spine
  • Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - rear cover
  • Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - edge view
  • Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - frontispiece portrait and title page
  • Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - copyright and contents
  • Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - text pages
  • Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - bookplate on front pastedown
  • Harvard Classics Vol. 23, Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana Jr., 1969 - edge view
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Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After (Harvard Classics Vol. 23)

Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After (Harvard Classics Vol. 23)

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Condition: Very Good

Book Notes: Green leatherette boards with gilt Harvard shield and border; moderate shelf wear. Binding tight; pages clean and intact. Previous owner's "From the Library of" bookplate on the front pastedown.

Author(s): Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Edition: Deluxe Edition

Print: 62nd Print

Publication year: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son

Condition: Very Good
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Richard Henry Dana Jr. left his studies at Harvard because of weak eyes and went to sea as a common sailor, sailing from Boston in August 1834 on the brig Pilgrim, around Cape Horn to California. He wrote the account from a notebook kept on the voyage. "Twenty-Four Years After" describes his return visit and what later became of the ships and some of the people. Part of The Harvard Classics, the 50-volume "Five-Foot Shelf of Books" compiled and edited by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot and published by P.F. Collier & Son.

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