The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

<P>A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman <I>Two Years Before the Mast </I>is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works such as <I>Moby Dick</I> and <I>Sailing Alone Around the World</I>. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America he annotates Dana’s tale with critiques tie-ins to today and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of Dana’s time.</P>