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
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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).
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Newbery Medal book - 1956.
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983, 1955.
Year Published: 1955
Description: 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0618250816
9780618250813
0618250743
9780618250745
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cosgrave, John O'Hara, 1908-1968,
SUBJECTS
Bowditch, Nathaniel, -- 1773-1838 -- Fiction.
Mathematicians -- Fiction.
Astronomers -- Fiction.
Navigation -- Fiction.
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.