Carry on, Mr. Bowditch /
Jean Lee Latham
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ?
- 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 centimeters.
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."