An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science Edward J. Larson
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Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.
Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. Dana Point was named as a result of this journey. Drawing from his journals,Two Years before the Mastgives a vivid and detailed account, shrewdly observed and beautifully described, of a common sailor's wretched treatment at sea, and of a way of life virtually unknown at that time.
This is a breathtaking true storyof adventure on the high seas.
© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbog): 9781483068862
© 2012 Andrews UK (E-bog): 9781781669839
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Lydbog: 2. december 2010
E-bog: 22. juni 2012
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