Richard Henry Dana

Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brig Pilgrim for a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California....

Two Years Before the Mast is an American classic published in 1840. This is the account of Richard Henry Dana’s two-year adventure as a sailor....

This is the true story of a Harvard graduate who forsook his studies for two years of the grueling life of an ordinary seaman....

Join abolitionist Richard Henry Dana as he explores Spanish Cuba in 1859, where kidnapped black Africans were slaves on vast sugar plantations along with impoverished Chinese coolies....