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415. Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.
Two Years Before the Mast is a 1946 American historical adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, and Barry Fitzgerald. It is based on Richard Henry Dana Jr. 's travel book of the same name and was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures .
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War in the Prize Cases.
The Pilgrim was an early 19th century American sailing brig. She was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about a 1834-1835 voyage between Massachusetts and California to trade for hides. Pilgrim caught fire and sank at sea in 1856.
Two Years Before the Mast: Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix: 1947-09-29 The Web: Vincent Price, Ella Raines: 1947-10-06 Undercurrent: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor: 1947-10-13 Great Expectations: Robert Cummings, Ann Blyth: 1947-10-20 13 Rue Madeleine: Robert Montgomery, Vanessa Brown: 1947-10-27 Stairway to Heaven: Ray Milland: 1947-11-03 Singapore ...
The observation by R. H. Dana of this phenomenon in Two Years Before the Mast is a straightforward description of an extraordinary experience apparently only known to mariners and airline pilots. There, directly over where we had been standing, upon the main top-gallant mast-head, was a ball of light, which the sailors name a corposant ( corpus ...
I read the book while living in San Diego in the 70's, after one year at sea as an enlisted U.S. Navy sailor. I learned more about the life at sea, the Pacific Ocean, and California history than I could have imagined was ever committed to paper. Dana's description of putting to sea for the first time, with men barefoot scurrying about the deck ...
In the 1840s bestseller Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, describes a gathering of sailors with the French singing "La Marseillaise", the Germans singing "O du lieber Augustin", English sailors singing "Rule, Britannia!" and the Scots, "Wha'll be King but Charlie?". [10]