Screen LibraryCarry on, Mr. Bowditch /
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
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Houghton Mifflin,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [1983] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator. |
| Item Description: | Originally published in 1955. |
| Carrier Form: | 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Awards: | Newbery Medal, 1956. |
| ISBN: |
0395068819 9780395068816 0395137136 9780395137130 9780812428254 0812428250 9780618250813 0618250816 9780618250745 0618250743 |
| Index Number: | PN1009 |
| CLC: | I712.84 |
| Call Number: | I712.84/L352 |
| Contents: | The good-luck spell -- The privateers -- Word from the Pilgrim -- Boys don't blubber -- A voice in the night -- Sail by ash breeze! -- The almanac -- Lock, stock, and bookkeeper -- Anchor to windward -- Freedom -- What next? -- Down to the sea -- Discovery -- Nineteen guns -- Sail Ho-o-o-o-o! -- A simple matter of mathematics -- Lunars and moonlight -- The Astrea to the rescue -- Strange sailing orders -- Book sailing -- Sealing is safer -- Science and Sumatra -- Captain Bowditch commanding -- Man against the fog. |