Mary Patten's Voyage

By Berleth, Richard & Otero, Ben

Publishers Summary:
A sailor recalls how the eighteen-year-old wife of Captain Joshua Patten took charge of the clipper ship Neptune's Car during a race from New York to San Francisco in 1856.

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ISBN
978-0-80754-987-2
Publisher
Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, c1994.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on December 1, 1994

Gr 3-5 A fictionalized account of an actual event that took place in 1856, when three ships set off from New York to San Francisco. Told in the first person by the second mate of Neptune's Car, it describes how Mary Patten, the 18-year-old pregnant wife of the captain, had to take over from her ill husband and pilot a clipper ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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