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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52339673 Title: Carry on, Mr. Bowditch Author: Jean Lee Latham; John O'Hara Cosgrave Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [©2003?]. ISBN/ISSN: 0618250816 9780618250813 0618250743 9780618250745 OCLC:52339673

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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Author:	Jean Lee Latham; John O'Hara Cosgrave
Publisher:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [©2003?].
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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."
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Named Person:	Nathaniel Bowditch; Nathaniel Bowditch
Material Type:	Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Jean Lee Latham; John O'Hara Cosgrave Find more information about:
ISBN:	0618250816 9780618250813 0618250743 9780618250745
OCLC Number:	52339673
Awards:	Newbery Medal, 1956.
Description:	251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
Responsibility:	by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.
More information:	Publisher description Contributor biographical information

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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."

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