Two Years Before the Mast

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…to the bar, he published Two Years Before the Mast, a personal narrative presenting “the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is” and showing the abuses endured by his fellow sailors. The book was immediately popular, and its realistic descriptions made it an American classic. In…
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…to the bar, he published Two Years Before the Mast, a personal narrative presenting “the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is” and showing the abuses endured by his fellow sailors. The book was immediately popular, and its realistic descriptions made it an American classic. In…
Read More