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Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during ...
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Cambridge, 1º agosto 1815 – Roma, 6 gennaio 1882) è stato uno scrittore e navigatore statunitense. Figlio del poeta e giornalista Richard Henry Dana Senior, dopo aver abbandonato nel 1834 gli studi a Harvard (anche per problemi alla vista), a 19 anni si decise ad andare per mare, imbarcandosi a Boston come marinaio ...
Learn about the life and achievements of Richard Henry Dana Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast and abolitionist lawyer. Find out his birth and death dates, places, family, education, career, and political involvement.
Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.
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Richard Dana’s Story. Dana rose to fame as the author of Two Years Before the Mast, and spent his legal career advocating for the rights of sailors and the abolition of slavery. Richard Henry Dana Jr. was born in Cambridge at 6 Green St., the second child of Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Ruth Charlotte (Smith) Dana.
11 nov 2019 · Why Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast still appeals to sailors—and young readers. November 11, 2019. Major works: Two Years Before the Mast. “Dana never forgets, never ceases to watch. If Hawthorne was a specter on the land, how much more is Dana a specter at sea.
On August 14, 1834, nineteen-year-old Richard Henry Dana Jr. made his way to Boston Harbor in search of a two-masted brig called the Pilgrim.
