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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.
Van Pelt Library PS3523.A76 C37 1955
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Latham, Jean Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838--Juvenile fiction.
- Bowditch, Nathaniel.
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838--Fiction.
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
- Mathematicians--Fiction.
- Astronomers--Fiction.
- Navigation--Fiction.
- Seafaring life--Fiction.
- Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
- 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."
- Notes:
- Newbery Medal, 1956.
- ISBN:
- 0395137136
- 9780395137130
- OCLC:
- 301421
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