Author(s): Tracey Fern,Emily Arnold McCully
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 40
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Language: English
Date Published: 2014-02-18
Dimensions: 236.22 x 256.54 x 10.16mm
Publication City/Country: New York
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Illustrations: Illustrations, color

Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that they would need every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: out of New York City, down around the tip of Cape Horn, and into San Francisco, where the Gold Rush was well under way. In a time when few women even accompanied their husbands onboard, Ellen Prentiss navigated their ship to set the world record for speed along that route.

A Margaret Ferguson Book