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Author

Latham, Jean Lee.

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

Imprint

Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, [c2003?].

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Series	J Latham	---	Available

Description	251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Awards	Newbery Medal, 1956.
Summary	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."
Subject	Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 -- Fiction.
	Mathematicians -- Fiction.
	Astronomers -- Fiction.
	Navigation -- Fiction.
	Seafaring life -- Fiction.
	Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Added Author	Cosgrave, John O'Hara, 1908-1968 illustrator.
ISBN	0618250816
	0618250743 (pbk.)