Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Dana's Seaman's friend. Brown
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Dana's Seaman's friend
Author: Richard Henry Dana
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Dana's Seamen's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates
Author: James Lees
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Dana's Seaman's friend. Brown
Author: Richard Henry Dana
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer
Author: John Randolph Spears
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Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Speeches in Stirring Times
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Speeches in Stirring Times; And, Letters to a Son
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Rites and Passages
Author: Margaret S. Creighton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521484480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, not the periphery, of the maritime past, and explores ways that the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. It differs from traditional accounts which celebrate exotic trades, powerful merchants, maritime technologies, and military exploits. Drawn on the evidence of nearly two hundred ship logs and sailors' diaries, Rites and Passages examines American whalemen at the height of the whaling industry in the 1800s and argues that whaling life and culture was shaped by both the American mainland and by the exigencies of ocean life. Unlike other published accounts of seafaring, this work brings gender into the maritime equation, not only with a discussion of the ways that women figured in this male world, but also with an examination of the ways that seafaring served as a rite of passage into manhood.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521484480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, not the periphery, of the maritime past, and explores ways that the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. It differs from traditional accounts which celebrate exotic trades, powerful merchants, maritime technologies, and military exploits. Drawn on the evidence of nearly two hundred ship logs and sailors' diaries, Rites and Passages examines American whalemen at the height of the whaling industry in the 1800s and argues that whaling life and culture was shaped by both the American mainland and by the exigencies of ocean life. Unlike other published accounts of seafaring, this work brings gender into the maritime equation, not only with a discussion of the ways that women figured in this male world, but also with an examination of the ways that seafaring served as a rite of passage into manhood.
Slavish Shore
Author: Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674495322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer’s memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or undermine the vow he had made to combat injustice. In Slavish Shore, Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s unflagging determination to keep that vow in the face of nineteenth-century America’s most exclusive establishment: the Boston society in which he had been born and bred. The drama of Dana’s life arises from the unresolved tension between the Brahmin he was expected to be on shore and the man he had become at sea. Dana’s sense of justice made him a lawyer who championed sailors and slaves, and his extraordinary advocacy put him at the center of some of the most consequential cases in American history: defending fugitive slave Anthony Burns, justifying President Lincoln’s war powers before the Supreme Court, and prosecuting Confederate president Jefferson Davis for treason. Yet Dana’s own promising political career remained unfulfilled as he struggled to reconcile his rigorous conscience with his restless spirit in public controversy and private life. The first full-length biography of Dana in more than half a century, Slavish Shore reintroduces readers to one of America’s most zealous defenders of freedom and human dignity.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674495322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer’s memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or undermine the vow he had made to combat injustice. In Slavish Shore, Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s unflagging determination to keep that vow in the face of nineteenth-century America’s most exclusive establishment: the Boston society in which he had been born and bred. The drama of Dana’s life arises from the unresolved tension between the Brahmin he was expected to be on shore and the man he had become at sea. Dana’s sense of justice made him a lawyer who championed sailors and slaves, and his extraordinary advocacy put him at the center of some of the most consequential cases in American history: defending fugitive slave Anthony Burns, justifying President Lincoln’s war powers before the Supreme Court, and prosecuting Confederate president Jefferson Davis for treason. Yet Dana’s own promising political career remained unfulfilled as he struggled to reconcile his rigorous conscience with his restless spirit in public controversy and private life. The first full-length biography of Dana in more than half a century, Slavish Shore reintroduces readers to one of America’s most zealous defenders of freedom and human dignity.
Two Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category : Horn, Cape (Chile)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Details the author's experiences as a common sailor on the merchant ships Pilgrim and Alert.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horn, Cape (Chile)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Details the author's experiences as a common sailor on the merchant ships Pilgrim and Alert.