The voyage of Patience Goodspeed

By Heather Vogel Frederick

Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Seafaring life, Fathers and sons, Navigation, Whaling, Mutiny, Fathers and daughters

Description: Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.