Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By Jean Lee Latham

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult

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."

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