Two Years Before the Mast
What is the importance of "The Alert" in the nonfiction book, Two Years Before the Mast?
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The Alert is author Richard Henry Dana's home for the return voyage from Upper California to Boston, MA, Alert is a well-known "Indiaman" (large merchant vessel) owned by the same Bryant, Sturgis & Co. of Boston, MA. She is bound for Boston as Pilgrim sails and is expected in Upper California to collect some 40,000 hides.
Two Years Before the Mast
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