Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Lee Latham
- First Published: 1955
- Time of Work: 1775–1803
- Setting: Salem, Massachusetts, and the high seas
- Principal Characters: Nathaniel Bowditch, Lizzie Bowditch, Sam Smith, Dr. Bentley, Captain Prince, Elizabeth, Polly
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Science or scientists, Eighteenth century, Sailing or sailors, Biography, Astronomy or astronomers, Navigation
- Locales: Oceans, Salem, MA
Form and Content
In Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham presents the formative years and early adulthood of Nathaniel Bowditch, the man who advanced the science of celestial navigation and who prepared what became the bible of navigation: The Practical Navigator (referred to by sailors simply as “Bowditch”). The biography begins with the young Bowditch living with his family in Danvers, Massachusetts, about to move back to Salem, a port so important during the late eighteenth century that it was thought by some in distant ports to be a country itself. The...
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