Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Latham, Jean Lee

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. - Boston Houghton Mifflin 1983. - 251 p. ill. ; 22 cm.

First published in 1955. Newbery Award 1956.

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.

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Bowditch, Nathaniel 1773-1838 --Fiction.


Navigation--Fiction.
Newbery Medal.

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