![]() Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. Two Years Before the Mast is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. ![]() He re-entered Harvard, graduated in 1837, and went on to study law.Ĭompleting his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. He sailed for home, again as a deckhand, in the Alert, an Indiaman, and made the dangerous winter passage around Cape Horn, arriving in Boston in September 1836. He spent the next year coasting the old Spanish ports from San Diego to San Francisco, loading a cargo of cowhides. He shipped out of Boston in August 1834 as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific. ![]() He left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. ![]() Richard Henry Dana, American writer and lawyer, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 1, 1815. Passengers at the Port of San Francisco: 1800s ![]()
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