Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
(1955)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/FICTION/LATHAM,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Fiction Y/FICTION/LATHAM,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955
DESCRIPTION

251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0618250816 (HC), 9780618250813 (HC), 0618250743 (PA), 1435201426 (Paw Prints), 9781435201422 (Paw Prints), 9780618250745, 0395137136, 9780395137130, 0395068819, 9780395068816, 0618250743, 0618250816, 9780618250813, 1435201426, 0606004521, 9780606004527, 9780812428254, 0812428250
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal

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

Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world--Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, and lookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero

Middle School

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