Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Jean Lee Latham, John O'Hara Cosgrave (Illustrator)
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
History
570L Decoding indicator: 100 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Structure indicator: 90 (high)
251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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
Originally published in 1955
Illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave.