02011cam a2200301 4500 1261982606 TxAuBib 721213s1955||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 55005219 9780395137130 Sandpiper ed. 0395137136 Sandpiper ed. (OCoLC)9493 DLC eng DLC ZEM BAKER BTCTA LF8 OCLCQ IAD SJI ZOW TXBXL CIRBC TMI SGB WAU OCLCA TxAuBib Latham, Jean Lee. Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955. 251 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Good-luck spell -- Privateers -- Word from the pilgrim -- ""Boys don't blubber"" -- Voice in the night -- ""Sail by ash breeze!"" -- Almanac -- ""Lock, stock, and bookkeeper"" -- Anchor to windward -- Freedom -- What next? -- Down to the sea -- Discovery -- Nineteen guns -- ""Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!"" -- Simple matter of mathematics -- Lunars and moonlight -- Astrea to the rescue -- Strange sailing orders -- Book sailing -- ""Sealing is safer"" -- Science and sumatra -- Captain Bowditch commanding -- Man against the fog. 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."". Bowditch, Nathaniel 1773-1838 Juvenile fiction. Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature. Sailors United States Biography. Nautical charts History. Seafaring life Juvenile literature. Navigation Juvenile fiction. Salem (Mass) History 18th century Fiction. Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II, 1908-1968, illustrator.