Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After, Vol. 23: With Introduction and Notes
There may be in some parts a good deal that is unintelligible to the general reader; but I have found from my own experience, and from what I have heard fromothers, that plain mattersoffactin relationtocustoms and habits of life new to us, and descriptions of life under new aspects, act upon the inexperienced through the imagination, so that we are hardly aware of our want of technical knowledge. Thousands read the escape of the Amerian frigate through the British channel, and the chase and wreck of the Bristol trader in the Red Rover, and follow the minute nautical maneuvres with breathless interest, who do not know the name of a rope in the ship; and perhaps with none the less admiration and enthusiasm for their want of acquaintance with the professional detail.
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