Big Son says so!This is about a boy who is indentured to be a bookkeeper in a ship's chandlery.
He had to stay nine years and did not get paid.
But, he did get to learn there, and had a place to stay and got fed.
Even though he can't go to Harvard he doesn't let that stop him...
he still learns things.
He went on voyages and was asked to become a captain.
He figured out a new way to take lunars. Bowditch wrote a book,
The American Practical Navigator
Bowditch said, "I was never becalmed."
