Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Publisher: HMCo
Published: 1983
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780618250745
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."