Title: The strange voyage of Neptune's Car
Description: Young Mary Anne Patten becomes the first woman to command a clipper ship when her husband, the ship's captain, falls ill during the hazardous voyage around Cape Horn and she is the only one aboard capable of navigating.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Neptune's Car (Clipper ship), Sea stories, Children's fiction
People: Joshua A. Patten (1826 or 7-1857), Mary Anne Brown Patten (1837-1861)