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Two years before the mast, 1840 (E-Text)

The Seaman's Friend (1851); Facsim. Reprod. Madison, R. H. (introd.) Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsims. & Rpts., 1979

Cruelty to seamen: being the case of Nichols & Couch. Berkeley, CA: Printed at the hand press of Wilder & Ellen Bentley, 1937. KF1121 .Z9 D3

Two years before the mast. With an introduction by Sir Wilfred Grenfell, and illustrations by Charles Pears. NY: Macmillan, 1946. G540 .D2

An autobiographical sketch (1815-1842). Ed. Robert F. Metzdorf. Hamden, Conn: Shoe String P, 1953. E415.9 .D15 A15

Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Edited from the original manuscript and from the first ed., with journals and letters of 1834-1836 and 1859-1860, and notes by John Haskell Kemble. With original illus. by Robert A. Weinstein, and illustrated from contemporary paintings, prints, and charts. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie P, [distributed exclusively by Lane Book Co., Menlo Park, Calif.] 1964. G540 .D2

To Cuba and back. Edited and with an introd. by C. Harvey Gardiner. Carbondale, Southern Illinois UP, 1966. F1763 .D2

The journal. Edited by Robert F. Lucid. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1968. E415.9 .D15 A16

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Adams, Charles F. Richard Henry Dana, a biography. Two volumes. Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin and company, 1891. E415.9 .D15 A2

Black, Ronald J. "The Paradoxical Structure of the Sea Quest in Dana, Poe, Cooper, Melville, London, and Hemingway." DAI 40 (1980): 5862A-63A.

Conrad, Bryce. "Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and Two Years before the Mast: Strategies for Objectifying the Subjective Self." Criticism 29.3 (Sumr 1987): 291-311.

Cox, James M. "Richard Henry Dana's Two Years before the Mast: Autobiography Completing Life." The Dialectic of Discovery: Essays on the Teaching and Interpretation of Literature Presented to Lawrence E. Harvey. Eds. John D. Lyons and Nancy J. Vickers. Lexington, KY: French Forum, 1984. 159-177.

Egan, Hugh. "'One of them': The Voyage of Style in Dana's Two Years before the Mast." American Transcendental Quarterly 2.3 (Sep 1988): 177-90.

- - -. "Gentlemen Sailors: The First-Person Narratives of Dana, Cooper, and Melville." DAI 44.12 (Jun 1984): 3683A-3684A.

Elderbrock, David H. "Limited Engagements: The Traveler as Subject and Social Critic in Nineteenth Century American Literature." DAI 57.3 (Sep 1996): DA9621123.

Fellman, Michael. "Sexual Longing in Richard Henry Dana,Jr.'s, American Victorian Diary." Canadian Review of American Studies 3 (1972): 96-105.

Gale, Robert L. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. NY: Twayne, 1969. PS1506 .G3

Hammes, Kenneth W., Jr. "Melville, Dana, and Ames: Sources for Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'." Polish Review 19.3-4 (1974): 29-33.

Hill, Douglas B., Jr. "Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Two Years Before the Mast." Criticism 9 (1967): 312-25.

Hughes, James M. "Inner and Outer Seas in Dickinson, Dana, Cooper, and Roberts." Literature and Lore of the Sea. Amsterdam: Ed. Patricia A. Carlson. Rodopi, 1986. 202-11.

MacDonnell, Kevin B. "The Parkman Dexter Howe Library: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Collection." The Parkman Dexter Howe Library, Part III. Ed. Sidney Ives. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida, 1986.

Madison, R. D. "Redburn's Seamanship and Dana's Guide-Book." Melville Society Extracts 57 (Feb 1984): 13-15.

Moyne, Ernest J. "Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and Mathias Liljeqvist, the Carpenter of the Ship 'Alert'." Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly 24 (1973): 49-54.

Shapiro, Samuel. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1815-1882. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1961. E415.9 .D15 S5

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