Latham, Jean Lee. <br/><br/>
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / 
by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  [c2003?]. 
 - 251 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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." 
<br/><br/> Newbery Medal, 1956. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618250816 (HC) 0618250743 (PA) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003267707 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 --Juvenile fiction.<br/>Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematicians--Fiction.<br/>Astronomers--Fiction.<br/>Navigation--Fiction.<br/>Seafaring life--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.L348  / Car 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]