Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (SIGNED COPY) by: Amestoy, Jeffrey L.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press], 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. Dana's sense of justice made him a lawyer who championed sailors and slaves, and his extraordinary advocacy put him at the center of some of the most consequential cases in American history.