Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.

Author/creator Latham, Jean Lee
Other author Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II, 1908-1968 illustrator.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Houghton Mifflin, [©2003?]
Description251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838--Juvenile fiction.
Mathematicians--Juvenile fiction.
Astronomers--Juvenile fiction.
Navigation--Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life--Juvenile fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History. --18th century. --Juvenile fiction.

Contents 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.
Abstract 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."
Awards noteNewbery Medal, 1956.
LCCN 2003267707
ISBN0618250816 (HC)
ISBN9780618250813 (HC)
ISBN0618250743 (PA)
ISBN9780618250745 (PA)