Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
, by Dana, Richard Henry- ISBN: 9781595475817 | 1595475818
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/30/2009
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. It is of note that he did not set out to write Two Years Before the Mast as a sea adventure, but to highlight how poorly common sailors were treated on ships. It quickly became a best seller.