Carry on, Mr. Bowditch /
Published by : Houghton Mifflin, (Boston :) Physical details: 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN:0618250816 (HC); 0618250743 (PA).Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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."
Newbery Medal, 1956.
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