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Author:

Latham, Jean Lee.

Title:

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

c2003?

Description:

251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Bowditch, Nathaniel,--1773-1838--Juvenile fiction.
Mathematicians--Juvenile fiction.
Astronomers--Juvenile fiction.
Navigation--Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life--Juvenile fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Juvenile fiction.
Newbery Medal.

Other Authors:

Cosgrave, John O'Hara, 1908-1968, illus.

Contents:

Good-luck spell -- Privateers -- Word from the pilgrim -- "Boys don't blubber" -- Voice in the night -- "Sail by ash breeze!" -- Almanac -- "Lock, stock, and bookkeeper" -- Anchor to windward -- Freedom -- What next? -- Down to the sea -- Discovery -- Nineteen guns -- "Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!" -- Simple matter of mathematics -- Lunars and moonlight -- Astrea to the rescue -- Strange sailing orders -- Book sailing -- "Sealing is safer" -- Science and sumatra -- Captain Bowditch commanding -- Man against the fog.

Summary:

After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."

ISBN:

9780618250745 (PA)
0618250743 (PA)
9780618250813 (HC)
0618250816 (HC)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52339673

LCCN:

2003267707

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