I just finished Two Years Before the Mast today. You were right, that is a great book. Bit of a barrier on the nautical terms but a great portrait of early California. I’ll wait a while and read it again.
110 posted on 04/10/2020 9:05:11 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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If you’d like to learn more nautical terms I can recommend the Aubrey-Maturin series of books by Patrick O’Brain. The first in the series is ‘Master and Commander’.
111 posted on 04/11/2020 8:14:15 AM PDT by hanamizu