{"product_id":"9781504025195","title":"Two Years Before the Mast","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis legendary account of a voyage around Cape Horn captures the majesty and misadventure of life at sea in the early nineteenth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1834, nineteen-year-old Richard Henry Dana left Harvard University to enlist as a deckhand on a brig sailing from Boston to the California coast. For the next two years, he recorded the terrifying storms, awe-inspiring beauty, and dreadful hardships of the journey in a diary he would later expand into this riveting memoir of “the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Dana spares no detail in portraying the wretched conditions he endured and the cruelty of the ship’s captain, but he also paints vivid, unforgettable pictures of natural wonders such as icebergs and schools of migrating whales. His descriptions of the missions and presidios of pre–Gold Rush California captured the imagination of the country when the book was first published in 1840, and they serve as valuable historical documentation to this day.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An instant classic and inspiration for contemporaries such as Herman Melville, \u003ci\u003eTwo Years Before the Mast \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most remarkable and influential adventure stories in American literature.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136935313648,"sku":"9781504025195","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504025195_p0.jpg?v=1763710197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504025195","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}