Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

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Call Number: R Newbery Medal 1956, Kids Book / Fiction / Historical / Latham, Jean Lee, Y Fiction / Latham, Jean Lee
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Newbery Medal 1956	0-week checkout	Library Use Only
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Historical / Latham, Jean Lee	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Latham, Jean Lee	4-week checkout	Due 05-08-2024
Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Historical / Latham, Jean Lee	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024

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.
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."

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Dated but Inspiring submitted by sdunav on August 12, 2023, 11:39am If you can get through the boring parts and the overt moralizing, it's an inspiring story. Mostly it makes me want to re-read Patrick O'Brian (or maybe check out a modern adult bio. of Nathaniel Bowditch).