The voyage of Patience Goodspeed
By: Heather Vogel Frederick.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Seafaring life -- Fiction.; Whaling -- Fiction.; Mutiny -- Fiction.; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Navigation -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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.