In 1869, my father, the late Richard Henry Dana, Jr., prepared a new edition of his Two Years Before the Mast'' with this preface: After twenty-eight years, the copyright of this book has reverted to me. In presenting the first author's edition' to the public, I have been encouraged to add an account of a visit to the old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together with notices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the persons with whom the reader is made acquainted.''
In 1869, my father, the late Richard Henry Dana, Jr., prepared a new edition of his Two Years Before the Mast'' with this preface: After twenty-eight years, the copyright of this book has reverted to me. In presenting the first author's edition' to the public, I have been encouraged to add an account of a visit to the old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together with notices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the persons with whom the reader is made acquainted.''