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    Reference 4017 (2254)
    Category Other travel
    Author Dana R. H. Junior (illustrator E. Boyd Smith)
    Title Two Years Before the Mast (With a supplement by the Author and introduction and additional chapter by his son)
    Publishing Information Boston and New York: Houghton and Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1912.
    Description 1912 Edition: xiii, 553 pages, illustrated, map end papers, eight colour plates, b/w line drawings headpieces, photos. Original covers, no dustjacket as issued. Some foxing, contents clean. Originally published in 1840. Written by the American lawyer and politician Richard Henry Dana, this work is a thrilling and vivid memoir documenting the author's two year sea voyage from Boston to California via cape Horn on the Brig Pilgrim and the Ship Alert beginning in 1834. A film adaptation was released in 1946. A nice copy with all the colour plates.
    Price £40.00
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