Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
By: illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.
Contributors: Cosgrave, John O'Hara, 1908-1968, illus.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1955
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: 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."