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Two years before the Mast, a personal narrative of life at sea
by Dana, Richard Henry
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Cleveland and New York: The World publishing company, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Good-. Dobkin, Alexander. World Famous Classics, 1946. Hardcover. Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Good -. Dobkin, Alexander (illustrator). Intro. by Mary Lamberton Becker. Clean gently read hardcover. DJ has tears along the edges, a 2 inch chip missing and rub marks. 415 pages. Synopsis Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. ABFFF
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- Glading Hill Emporium
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0001802
- Title
- Two years before the Mast, a personal narrative of life at sea
- Author
- Dana, Richard Henry
- Illustrator
- Dobkin, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- The World publishing company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland and New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 19th century; Adventurers & Explorers; Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Ancient (To 499 A.D.); Biography & Autobiography; Chile; History; Non-Fiction; Sailing; Seafaring life; Seamen; Sports & Recreation; United States; Voyages
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