Now the official sailing vessel of the State of Maine, the BOWDOIN was built for Admiral Donald MacMillan in 1921, making 26 Arctic voyages between 1921 and 1954 under his command. Now owned by the Maine Maritime Academy, she was designated a U.S. National Historical Landmark in 1989. A sailor herself, Virginia Thorndike has written an informative and affectionate recounting of the life of the BOWDOIN, featuring interviews with those who have sailed on her, including the original "Bowdoin Boys" who saled with MacMillan, excerpts from the ship's log, accounts of her rebuilding, her adventures with Outward Bound, and her most recent voyage in 1994 that took her 500 miles above the Arctic Circle to the sea where the sun doesn't set.

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