Resource Summary
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 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. |
Details
- Resource Type: Book
- ISBN: 0618250743
- Print Status: In Print
- Chapters: 24
- Pages: 251
- Suggested Grade Level: 5th - 9th
- Geographical Setting: Massachusetts, Atlantic Ocean
- Historical Setting: 1779 - 1800
- Subjects: History, Science
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Copyright: 1955
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Chapter Details
- 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