Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Suggested Reading

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Related Titles

People who followed the sea have been the subject of other biographies by Latham. Trait Blazer of the Seas tells the story of Matthew Maury, who helped to found the U.S. Naval Academy. Latham's accounts of other sea-faring men are Drake: The Man They Called a Pirate, about Sir Francis Drake, the sixteenth-century English explorer; Man of the "Monitor": The Story of John Ericsson, about the builder of the Civil War ship the Monitor Far Voyager: The Story of James Cook, about the eighteenth-century English captain who explored the South Seas; and Anchor's Aweigh: The Story of David Glasgow Farragut, about the Civil War naval hero.