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Two Years Before the Mast

di Richard Henry Dana Jr. · 39 parti · about 13 hours 43 minutes di lettura

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Eccolo, spiegato come se avessi 10 anni:

Richard Dana era uno studente universitario, non un marinaio, quando si imbarcò su una nave per la California come comune lavorante. Per due anni si arrampicò su corde ghiacciate, fece turni di notte, trascinò pelli pesanti e vide uomini puniti ingiustamente. Scrisse tutto onestamente, il buono e il terribile. Il suo libro ti lascia sentire esattamente ciò che i marinai comuni sopportavano mentre gli ufficiali vivevano in comfort nella parte posteriore.

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Il libro completo si legge in inglese. Ecco tutti i capitoli:

Capitoli

Preface4 min Chapter I: Departure4 min Chapter II: First Impressions, "sail Ho!"11 min Chapter III: Ship's Duties, Tropics11 min Chapter IV: A Rogue, Trouble on Board, "land Ho!", Pompero, Cape Horn15 min Chapter V: Cape Horn, a Visit17 min Chapter VI: Loss of a Man, Superstition10 min Chapter VII: Juan Fernandez, the Pacific14 min Chapter VIII: "tarring Down", Daily Life, "going Aft", California11 min Chapter IX: California, a South-easter16 min Chapter X: A South-easter, Passage Up the Coast10 min Chapter XI: Passage Up the Coast, Monterey10 min Chapter XII: Life at Monterey6 min Chapter XIII: Trading, a British Sailor21 min Chapter XIV: Santa Barbara, Hide-droghing, Harbor Duties, Discontent, San Pedro25 min Chapter XV: A Flogging, a Night on Shore, the State of Things on Board, San Diego27 min Chapter XVI: Liberty-day on Shore16 min Chapter XVII: San Diego, a Desertion, San Pedro Again, Beating the Coast16 min Chapter XVIII: Easter Sunday, "sail Ho!", Whales, San Juan, Romance of Hide-droghing, San Diego Again27 min Chapter XIX: The Sandwich Islanders, Hide-curing, Wood-cutting, Rattle-snakes, New-comers31 min Chapter XX: Leisure, News from Home, "burning the Water"18 min Chapter XXI: California and Its Inhabitants11 min Chapter XXII: Life on Shore, the Alert13 min Chapter XXIII: New Ship and Shipmates, My Watchmate39 min Chapter XXIV: San Diego Again, a Descent, Hurried Departure, a New Shipmate15 min Chapter XXV: Rumors of War, a Spouter, Slipping for a South-easter, a Gale35 min Chapter XXVI: San Francisco, Monterey18 min Chapter XXVII: The Sunday Wash-up, on Shore, a Set-to, a Grandee, "sail Ho!", a Fandango23 min Chapter XXVIII: An Old Friend, a Victim, California Rangers, News from Home, Last Looks28 min Chapter XXIX: Loading for Home, a Surprise, Last of an Old Friend, the Last Hide, a Hard Case, Up Anchor, for Home!, Homeward Bound46 min Chapter XXX: Beginning the Long Return Voyage, a Scare25 min Chapter XXXI: Bad Prospects, First Touch of Cape Horn, Icebergs, Temperance Ships, Lying-up, Ice, Difficulty on Board, Change of Course, Straits of Magellan50 min Chapter XXXII: Ice Again, a Beautiful Afternoon, Cape Horn, "land Ho!", Heading for Home24 min Chapter XXXIII: Cracking on, Progress Homeward, a Pleasant Sunday, a Fine Sight, By-play22 min Chapter XXXIV: Narrow Escapes, the Equator, Tropical Squalls, a Thunder Storm15 min Chapter XXXV: A Double-reef-top-sail Breeze, Scurvy, a Friend in Need, Preparing for Port, the Gulf Stream18 min Chapter XXXVI: Soundings, Sights from Home, Boston Harbor, Leaving the Ship19 min Concluding Chapter37 min Twenty-Four Years After64 min