Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
By: by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.
Contributors: Cosgrave, John O'Hara, 1908-1968, illus.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 -- Juvenile fiction; Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 -- Fiction; Mathematicians -- Fiction; Astronomers -- Fiction; Navigation -- Fiction; Seafaring life -- Fiction; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.