The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

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