Anchor’s Aweigh (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Lee Latham
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1807–1868
- Setting: Holston River, East Tennessee; New Orleans; Valparaíso, Chile; Norfolk, Virginia; New York City; Mobile Bay, Alabama; the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas
- Principal Characters: David Glasgow Farragut, Major Farragut, William Farragut, Nancy Farragut, Susan Marchant Farragut, Virginia Loyall Farragut, Commodore David Porter, William Kingsbury, John Ericsson, Mr. Matthews
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Civil War, Ships, Heroes or heroism, Biography, Navies
- Locales: Caribbean, New York, NY, New Orleans, LA, Tennessee, Oceans, Valparaiso, Chile, Mediterranean, Mobile Bay, AL, Norfolk, VA
Form and Content
For young readers, Jean Lee Latham’s Anchor’s Aweigh: The Story of David Glasgow Farragut is an engaging narrative of a Tennessee boy’s romantic love of the Navy, his training toward leadership, and the Civil War actions at New Orleans and Mobile Bay that made him a national hero. Latham’s twenty-two chapters are organized chronologically to carry Farragut (or “Glasgow,” as he was called by his ship-mates) from his boyhood through his post-Civil War years as the recipient of national and international honors for his nautical skill and his...
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