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• 1.0 out of 5 stars from Amazon Customer -- Many pages are illegible, like photocopies with too little toner. I expect better from Amazon. : When I first leafed through the book, I could see that most of the right hand pages were almost illegible, as if they hade been printed on an old copier which was low on toner. Indeed, the entire book looks like a bound collection of poor Xerox pages. In many cases, you can still see the margin shadows created by photocopiers. I requested a replacement, but I am skeptical that it will be an improvement. ( Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Erin O'Quinn -- “There is a witchery in the sea…” : “There is a witchery in the sea…” Richard Dana’s classic memoir of a two-year sea voyage still draws spell-bound readers after nearly 200 years. More than a diary, his story is the result of extensive notes he jots down—somehow—in between seaman’s strenuous duties, above-deck watches every four hours, near-death experiences, and exhausted sleep. ( Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017 )
• 1.0 out of 5 stars from mikey d. -- Un-readable due to mimiscule font size !! : This edition is completely un-readable due to the smallest font size I've ever seen in any book. Must be a 4 point font here. It's too small even with a magnifying glass ! ( Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Rick Blaine -- A nice narrative of the 1835 coast of California : First, I read this book from Amazon on the Kindle edition and there were no skipped or misplaced pages and the font size was uniform and perfect throughout. Second, the main reason I read this was because it was recommended by Daniel Brown, author of probably the best book about the ill fated Donner party, 'The Indifferent Stars Above'. Third, to be honest, all of the NUMEROUS pages describing in great detail the setting and striking of the multitude of sails, ropes, rigging, spars, yardarms and masts of a ship didn't interest me that much. If that's what you're looking for, this is your book, but it was a bit much for me. What I like is the geography, the bringing alive of the history of a part of this country that is now populated by tens of millions of people, but in 1835 consisted of a few thousand Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans, Russians, Chinese, English, French and 'Americans' who travelled thousands of miles through treacherous wind, waves, snow, rain and sometimes dead calm seas to trade goods and food from New England for cow hides with the people of California. This is before Melville wrote about the white whale, before the Donners's and thousands of immigrants risked their lives to travel overland to get to the west coast and a decade or more before millions to travelled the hills, rivers, mountains and streams of the Sierra and surrounding valleys looking for gold. His vivid descriptions of desolate, nearly uninhabited areas where the only true permanent structure is the missions built by the Spanish 50 to 80 years before: San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, San Pedro (Long Beach), San Gabriel (Los Angeles), Santa Barbera, San Francisco and others, is fascinating. The descriptions of the people who live there, many of whom are Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islanders, is very vivid and interesting. It helps if you've spent time living in California (I've lived there on and off over the last 20 years) but even if you haven't it's a very enlightening read. Check it out if you get a chance. ( Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2021 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Kindle Customer -- An Amazing Account of 19th Century Merchant Sailors : This is a beautifully written account of a young Harvard student who takes two years off from his studies to sail around Cape Horn as a sailor on a merchant ship. He expected an eighteen month hiatus, but it extended into two long years. He had no sailing experience, so learned on the job through much hardship, hard work, and hard tack. It is possible to "read around" the descriptions of the specific tasks of raising sails, climbing masts, tightening ropes without understanding it all. What is conveyed, though, is the hard toil, the beauty and capriciousness of the sea, andthe importance of loyalty and trust. Months are spent ( Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2018 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Desmond J. Keenan -- a classic book on a facet of American history : In the early part of the 18th century, before the American Civil War, a young university student in New England was obliged to interrupt his studies because of eyestrain. He decided on a voyage at sea, and volunteered as a landsman on a ship trading with California, on America’s West Coast. The voyage had to be made round the Cape Horn. California was then part of Mexico, and it was before the gold rush in 1849. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2021 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Jackie M -- Very interesting. : This is a very good insight into life at sea in 1834 - 1836. It is about life on an American merchant ship but it would be very similar to life aboard an English ship. The narrative is easy to read and the many references to naval terms does not detract from the understanding. In fact, I found these naval terms interesting and appropriate to the text and, with a Kindle, easily searched for in the dictionary when my curiosity was arose. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2017 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from David Powell -- I enjoyed it as an account of life in the age ... : I first read this book 40 years ago, as a paper copy without the sequel. I enjoyed it as an account of life in the age of sail. I was recently moved to reread it and enjoyed it even more. This time round I was also interested in the descriptions of the Californian coast at a time just before people arrived en masse. I enjoyed trying to use Google Earth to understand the geographical details even though success was relatively infrequent. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2018 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Richard Law -- Classic American : I'd not read this book until recently. American classics were part of my school diet - Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in particular, but not this one. The author dropped out of college and took ship in a bid to get his health back. Tough way to do it; they went around the Horn to California where the task was dressing and compressing cowhides as the return cargo. It's an adventure all the way to California, where I found the repetition of what they did with hides in need of editing, before his eventual return. Time-wise, he was on the Californian coast in 1836 and heard about the fall of the Alamo there. One fascinating encounter is with a retired sea captain with whom he has a conversation about the advances in sailing ships since the old dude retired some fifteen years earlier. The beaches and creeks he worked hides on were long gone in his lifetime, built over by San Diego and San Francisco, which he mentions visiting in later years. And the San Francisco he saw is long gone too, what with the earthquake and the fire. He gives a lot of detail of the daily grind on ship where there is always something to do, make, mend, repair, paint, tar, splice or clean. He comes across as one who got stuck into whatever task he was given and eventually manages to get as good at it as the crew; men who seem quite tolerant of this bookish, sickly youth from the start and proud to have known him by the end. He went on to be a lawyer, an abolitionist and one who stood tall for the rights of others - seamen, slaves or free. His book became an instant hit when published, being one of the very few (at the time) reference books about California. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2016 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from Kindle Customer -- A flashback into the lives of sailors : Interesting to read. A true account of the lives of sailors in the 1830's. Interesting to read about the hardships on board and sailing past Cape Horn. Also revisiting old haunts only 24 years later and how much had changed with the completion of the Panama Canal. This book is far more intriguing to me, than reading a history text book. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2019 )

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