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Latham, Jean Lee.

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955 - 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - John Newbery Medal Book, 1956 . - John Newbery Medal Book, 1956 .

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

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."

Middle School



ISBN: 9780618250745 0618250743

LCCN: 55005219

Subjects--Personal Names:
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 --Juvenile fiction

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographical fiction--Juvenile
Historical fiction.
Biography.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.L348 / Car PS3523.A772 / C37 1955

Dewey Class. No.: 920 L352C