Richard Henry Dana

Richard Henry Dana's Books and Stories

The Seaman's Friend

Literature

5.0

The Seaman's Friend by Richard Henry Dana

Two Years Before the Mast

Modern

4.8

In 1869, my father, the late Richard Henry Dana, Jr., prepared a new edition of his “Two Years Before the Mast” with this preface: “After twenty-eight years, the copyright of this book has reverted to me. In presenting the first ‘author’s edition’ to the public, I have been encouraged to add an account of a visit to the old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together with notices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the persons with whom the reader is made acquainted.”