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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Latham, Jean Lee. (Author). Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II, 1908-1968 (illustrator.).

Summary: Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world--Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, and lookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.

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ISBN: 0395137136
ISBN: 9780395137130
ISBN: 0395068819
ISBN: 9780395068816
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Physical Description: print
251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
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Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Target Audience Note:	570L Lexile. Decoding indicator: 100 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Structure indicator: 90 (high) Lexile. Middle School.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader MG 4.1 8.0 Kilgore Intermediate.
Awards Note:	Newbery Medal, 1956

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