Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

by Latham, Jean Lee; Cosgrave, John O'Hara

• ISBN13: 9780395137130
• ISBN10: 0395137136
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1973-01-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Summary

Winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal, this novel tells the story of 18th-century mathematical wizard Nathaniel Bowditch, whose determination to master sea navigation resulted in "The American Practical Navigator."

Table of Contents

The Good-Luck Spell	p. 1
The Privateers	p. 9
Word from the Pilgrim	p. 15
"Boys Don't Blubber"	p. 25
A Voice in the Night	p. 35
"Sail by Ash Breeze!"	p. 43
The Almanac	p. 54
"Lock, Stock, and Bookkeeper"	p. 61
Anchor to Windward	p. 69
Freedom	p. 79
What Next?	p. 89
Down to the Sea	p. 99
Discovery	p. 115
Nineteen Guns	p. 123
"Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!"	p. 136
A Simple Matter of Mathematics	p. 150
Lunars and Moonlight	p. 158
The Astrea to the Rescue	p. 173
Strange Sailing Orders	p. 184
Book Sailing	p. 195
"Sealing is Safer"	p. 208
Science and Sumatra	p. 217
Captain Bowditch Commanding	p. 228
Man Against the Fog	p. 241
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