The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana
$27.95
Publication Date: October 1st, 2023
Publisher:
Sheridan House
ISBN:
9781493075980
Pages:
406
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Description

Two Years Before the Mast is a classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works like Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As he follows Richard Henry Dana Jr. (a Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America (encountering racial injustices and struggling through the battered life of a foremast crewman), Rod Scher annotates his tale with critiques, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of Dana's time.

About the Author

Rod Scher received his MEd from the University of Oregon. He is a longtime boating enthusiast and former English teacher, as well as an experienced writer and editor with multiple books and dozens of magazine articles to his credit. The former editor of Smart Computing magazine, Scher is also the author of Sailing by Starlight: The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star and Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology, and the editor/annotator of an edition of Joshua Slocum's classic nautical memoir Sailing Alone Around the World. He lives in Depoe Bay, Oregon.