In 1834, Richard Henry Dana, a classmate of Henry David Thoreau, dropped out of Harvard because his eyesight was failing. He couldnt study couldnt read like he used to. So he joined the merchant marine, to sail from Boston to California and Movado replica watches collect hides. The voyage, which began with 14 other men on the 86-foot Pilgrim and took him around Cape Horn twice, lasted more than two years. When he returned, he went back to school, got a law degree, and got married. Then he wrote a book about it, called Two Years Before The Mast. It, like he, made waves.
Edward Tyrell Channing, a professor of oratory and rhetoric at Harvard, reviewed the book in the North American Review. He wrote that it was a successful attempt to describe a class of men, and a course of life, which, though familiarly spoken of by most people, and considered as within the limits of civilization, will appear to them now almost as just Oris replica watches discovered.Indeed, it still reads that way. There are discoveries on every page. The New York Review agreed, and published a review that said the book will serve to dissipate all the illusions about the sea, which most young men are wont to cherish; they will learn from it, that the forecastle of a ship is the most undesirable of asylums, to any one who has had even a moderate share of comforts at home;
and be convinced, that no reasonable man will choose it for his dwelling place.Richard Henry Dana destroyed illusions alright, but he also wrote about boredom, fortitude, discipline, and perspective. He wrote adventure and tragedy, replica Rolex Sports Models watch history and legend. The book, which is on most current lists of best-adventure books, still floats. He showed up with a chest of stuff, and spent his first three days at sea puking. Recalling that first night, he wrote: I had often read of the nautical experiences of others, but I felt as though there could be none worse than mine; for in addition to every other evil, I could not but remember that this was only the first night of a two years voyage. He goes on:
