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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Author: Jean Lee Latham; John O'Hara Cosgrave
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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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.

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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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