About this work of fiction
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
251 p. : 22 cm 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." A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer Nathaniel Bowditch, who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator Newbery Medal, 1956 First published in 1955 Winner of the Newbery Award for 1956
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jean Lee Latham
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 1955
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780395137130
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction