Carry on, Mr. Bowditch /

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.

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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Latham, Jean Lee.
Other Authors: Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II, 1908-1968 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
Series:John Newbery Medal Book, 1956.
Subjects:
Bowditch, Nathaniel, > 1773-1838 > Juvenile fiction.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, > 1773-1838 > Fiction.
Inventors > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Sailors > United States > Biography.
Nautical charts > History.
Aids to navigation > Juvenile literature.
Seafaring life > Juvenile literature.
Navigation > Juvenile fiction.
Navigation > Fiction.
Salem (Mass.) > History > 18th century > Fiction.
Children's stories.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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