Two Years Before the Mast

, by Dana, Richard Henry

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ISBN: 9781582182865 | 1582182868
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/1/2001

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Departuire -- First Impressions -- Ship's Duties

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First Impressions --- Ship's Duties

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Ship's Duties

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Sundays At Sea -- Trouble on Board -- Land Ho -- A Pampero -- Cape Horn

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Cape Horn -- A Visit

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Loss Of a Man

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Superstitions -- Juan Fernandez -- Putting the Vessel in Order

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Painting -- Daily Life -- Point Conception

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Santa Barbara -- Beach-Combing -- A Southeaster

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A Southeaster -- Passage Up the Coast

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Passage Up the Coast -- Monterey

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Monterey

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Monterey -- A British Sailor -- Santa Barbara

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Hide Droghing -- Discontent -- San Pedro -- Flogging

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Flogging -- Night On Shore -- State of Things On Board -- San Diego

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Liberty-Day On Shore

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San Diego -- Desertion -- San Pedro Again -- Easter Sunday

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Easter Sunday -- Italian Sailors -- San Juan -- San Diego Again -- Life on Shore

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Sandwich-Islanders -- Hide-Curing -- Wood-Cutting -- Coyotes -- Rattlesnakes

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New Comers -- People at the Hide-Houses -- Leisure -- Pilgrim News from Home -- Pilgrim Occupations on the Beach -- California and its Inhabitants

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California and its Inhabitants

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Life on the Beach -- The Alert

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New Ship and Shipmates - A Race -- My Watchmate, Tom Harris -- San Diego Again

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A Descent - A Hurried Departure - A New Shipmate

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Rumors of War -- A Spouter -- Sudden Slipping for a Southeaster -- to Windward -- A Dry Gale

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San Francisco -- Monterey Revisited

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Monterey Revisited -- A Set-to -- A Decayed Gentleman -- A Contrabandista -- A Fandango

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A Victim -- California Rangers-Beach-Combers -- News From Home -- Last Looks

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Loading for Home -- A Surprise -- Last of an Old Friend -- the Last Hide -- A Hard Case -- An Anchor, for Home! -- The Alert and California -- Homeward Bound

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Homeward Bound -- Our Passenger, Professor Nuttall - Home-ward Bound

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Bad Prospects -- First Touch of Cape Horn -- Iceburgs -- Temperance Ships -- Lying-Up -- Ice -- Difficulty on Board - Change of Course - Straits of Magellan

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Ice Again -- Disappointment -- Cape Horn - Land Ho!

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Cracking On -- Progress Homeward -- A Fine Sight - Fitting Ship -- By-Plane

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An Escape -- Equator - Tropical Squalls - Tropical Thunder-Storm

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A Reef-Topsail Breeze - Scurvy -- A Friend in Need -- Preparing for Port -- Gulf Stream

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Soundings -- Sights About Home - Boston Harbor - Leaving the Ship

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Twenty Four Years After

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Two Years Before the Mast

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