Latham, Jean Lee

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."

0618250816 (HC) 0618250743 (PA)

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Bowditch, Nathaniel,--Juvenile fiction.
Bowditch, Nathaniel,--Fiction.


Mathematicians--Fiction.
Astronomers--Fiction.
Navigation--Fiction.
Seafaring life--Fiction.


Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.

FIC L34c 1983