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| Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Latham, Jean Lee. Carry on, Mr. Bowditch. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983 (OCoLC)755164922 |
| Named Person: | Nathaniel Bowditch |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Lee Latham; John O'Hara Cosgrave |
| ISBN: | 0395068819 9780395068816 0395137136 9780395137130 |
| OCLC Number: | 15814480 |
| Notes: | Originally published in 1955. |
| Awards: | Newbery Medal, 1956. |
| Description: | 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The good-luck spell -- The privateers -- Word from the Pilgrim -- Boys don't blubber -- A voice in the night -- Sail by ash breeze! -- The almanac -- Lock, stock, and bookkeeper -- Anchor to windward -- Freedom -- What next? -- Down to the sea -- Discovery -- Nineteen guns -- Sail Ho-o-o-o-o! -- A simple matter of mathematics -- Lunars and moonlight -- The 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. |
Abstract:
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
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