Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

Rod Scher is an experienced writer and editor with multiple books and dozens of magazine articles to his credit. The former editor of Smart Computing Magazine, Scher is also the author of Sailing by Starlight: The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star and Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology, and the editor/annotator of recent editions of Joshua Slocum’s classic nautical memoir Sailing Alone Around the World and Richard Henry Dana’s classic Two Years Before the Mast, all from Sheridan House Publishers. He lives in Depoe Bay, Oregon.

Rod Scher is an ideally informative and amiable companion as he follows Dana on his exciting and exhausting voyage—he places Dana fully in his time and place, offering historical and cultural contexts for the writer's experiences, observations, and expressions. Scher knows how to inspire a sense of historical imagination in his readers, without forgetting who we are now. Scher can be proud of his own achievement in bringing such factual detail and humane judgment to this edition.