Reviews for Carry on%2C Mr. Bowditch

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The 1956 Newbery Medal winner, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham, is a fictionalized biography of the great American navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, whose 1802 book, The American Practical Navigator, became known as the "Sailor's Bible." This edition features new jacket art and the original b&w interior illustrations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved


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This reissue of a Newbery Medal winner is a fictionalized biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, a born mathematician who grew up in Salem; was taken out of school and apprenticed to a ship chandler when he was twelve; read and studied by himself; and when he finally went to sea astonished everyone with his ability to apply his knowledge to navigation. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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