Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
- Date:
- 1955.
- Author:
- Latham, Jean Lee.
- Collecting Area:
- Rare Books
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin
- ISBN:
- 0395137136
- Abstract:
- Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world--Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, and lookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.
- Physical Description:
- 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Series:
- John Newbery Medal Book, 1956 and John Newbery Medal Book, 1956.
- Notes:
- Accelerated Reader MG 4.1 8.0 Kilgore Intermediate.
- Subjects:
- Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature, Sailors United States Biography, Nautical charts History, Aids to navigation Juvenile literature, Seafaring life Juvenile literature, Navigation Juvenile fiction, Navigation Fiction, Aids to navigation, Inventors, Nautical charts, Navigation, Sailors, Seafaring life, Navigation Fiction. sears, and Newbery Medal. sears
- Genres/Forms:
- Children's stories, Biographical fiction Juvenile, Historical fiction, Biographies, Fiction, History, Juvenile works, Biographical fiction. gsafd, Historical fiction. lcgft, and Juvenile literature New York (State) New York 1955. rbgenr
- Names:
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 Juvenile fiction, Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 Fiction, Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, and Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 Fiction. sears
- Chronological Terms:
- 1700-1799 fast
- Geographic Terms:
- Salem (Mass.) History 18th century Fiction, Massachusetts Salem, and United States
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