The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast - Hardcover

by Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Author), Rod Scher (Essay by)

Two Years Before the Mast is a classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works like Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As he follows Richard Henry Dana Jr. (a Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America (encountering racial injustices and struggling through the battered life of a foremast crewman), Rod Scher annotates his tale with critiques, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of Dana's time.

Author Biography

Rod Scher is an experienced writer and editor with multiple books and dozens of magazine articles to his credit. The former editor of Smart Computing Magazine, Scher is also the author of Sailing by Starlight: The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star and Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology, and the editor/annotator of recent editions of Joshua Slocum's classic nautical memoir Sailing Alone Around the World and Richard Henry Dana's classic Two Years Before the Mast, all from Sheridan House Publishers. He lives in Depoe Bay, Oregon.