The way of a ship : an essay on the literature of navigation science along with some American contributions to the art of navigation 1519-1802 /Lawrence C. Wroth ; revised versions, edited with a foreword by John B. Hattendorf.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its original publication, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University has issued a new edition of Way of a Ship (1937), the foundational bibliographic essay on the literature of navigation science.