Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.33 x 6.73in | 432 pages | ISBN 9780451527592 | 01 Mar 2000 | Signet Classic | 18 - AND UP
In 1834, a young Harvard man signed on as a common seaman for a perilous voyage around Cape Horn to California. During the next two years he recorded the joys and hardships of a sailor's life in a daily journal. The enormously successful result is both a protest against brutal working conditions and a powerful portrayal of the testing of man's courage and endurance.
Introduction by John Seelye
Preface
Two Years Before the Mast
Appendix
Vessels: Their Spars, Rigging, and Sails
Afterword by Wright Morris
Selected Bibliography
