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Two Years Before the Mast

a Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Dec 29, 2017lcranmer rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome book. Tremendous descriptive skills. Describes an adventure in the world of the 1830's that might as well have been to the ends of the Earth, which California effectively was. Wooden ships and iron men. From a personal standpoint, gives life to many places I know in California where I grew up, describing them before they grew into the California of today. I visited Santa Cruz Island a year ago, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of Ventura/Santa Barbara. It is howt I imagine that the California that Dana saw and described in the book.