Carry On, Mr. Bowditch [SCM]
by Jean Lee Latham Author
Nat, denied entrance to Harvard, teaches himself astronomy, mathematics, navigation, and three languages. A fictional biography of how Nathanial Bowditch literally rewrote the book on 18th century navigation.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0618250743
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 24
- Pages
- 251
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 9th
- Geographical Setting
- Massachusetts, Atlantic Ocean
- Historical Setting
- 1779 - 1800
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Copyright
- 1955
Chapters
- 1 The Good-luck Spell
- 2 The Privateers
- 3 Word from the Pilgrim
- 4 Boys Don't Blubber
- 5 A Voice in the Night
- 6 Sail by Ash Breeze!
- 7 The Almanac
- 8 Lock, Stock, and Bookkeeper
- 9 Anchor to Windward
- 10 Freedom
- 11 What Next?
- 12 Down to the Sea
- 13 Discovery
- 14 Nineteen Guns
- 15 Sail Ho-o-o-o-o
- 16 A Simple Matter of Mathematics
- 17 Lunars and Moonlight
- 18 The Astrea to the Rescue
- 19 Strange Sailing Orders
- 20 Book Sailing
- 21 Sealing Is Safer
- 22 Science and Sumatra
- 23 Captain Bowditch Commanding
- 24 Man Against the Fog
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