It was 1844 and the first time Dana saw the Pilgrim. He knew she was the ship for him. because in all of Boston harbour, she had the finest lines, the deepest draughts and masts that almost scraped the sky. Yes, the clipper Pilgrim seemed like the answer to his dreams, the largest, tallest, most seaworthy ship he had ever seen - and even though he'd never been to sea and hardly knew his way around a deck, he climbed aboard to find the captain. And so begins the tales of Dana, an exciting narrative of a young man's voyage as a common seaman from Boston to California and back in the age of sail...