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Newbery Medal Winner

Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.

Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small.

Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by “log, lead, and lookout.” Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailors’ Bible”), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.

Carry On Mr. Bowditch

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean Lee Latham, Mary R Walsh

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      Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/05/2003
      ISBN13: 9780618250745, 978-0618250745
      ISBN10: 0618250743

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Newbery Medal Winner

      Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.

      Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small.

      Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by “log, lead, and lookout.” Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailors’ Bible”), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.

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