Dec 23, 2009

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

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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

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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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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

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