Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative [of Life at Sea]

xiii, [1], 553 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and borders, color plate mounted on front board. Color frontispiece and plates, as well as chapter headers from drawings, by E. Boyd Smith, route maps on endpapers. Also includes a supplement by the author and an introduction and additional chapter by his son. Inspiration for the film starring Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, and William Bendix. "Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946....Two Years Before the Mast is a 1946 adventure film based on Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s travel book of the same name. It starred Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva and Esther Fernandez.."