David Goes Voyaging is a lively, boyish record of a twelve-year-old's extraordinary months aboard the scientific ship Arcturus, where wonder and discovery shape every day. Traveling with his mother and surrounded by naturalists, artists, and sailors, David Putnam celebrates his birthday on the Equator, learns the practical work of exploration, and sees the natural world with a child's unguarded curiosity. From his first sight of the ship at Colon and the passage through the Panama Canal to...