| Description |
251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
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age Children |
| Awards |
Newbery Medal, 1956. |
| Summary |
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." |
| Contents |
Good-luck spell -- Privateers -- Word from the pilgrim -- "Boys don't blubber" -- Voice in the night -- "Sail by ash breeze!" -- Almanac -- "Lock, stock, and bookkeeper" -- Anchor to windward -- Freedom -- What next? -- Down to the sea -- Discovery -- Nineteen guns -- "Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!" -- Simple matter of mathematics -- Lunars and moonlight -- Astrea to the rescue -- Strange sailing orders -- Book sailing -- "Sealing is safer" -- Science and sumatra -- Captain Bowditch commanding -- Man against the fog. |
| Subject |
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. |
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Mathematicians -- Juvenile fiction.
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Mathematicians. |
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Astronomers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Astronomers. |
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Navigation -- Juvenile fiction.
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Navigation. |
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Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Seafaring life. |
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Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II, 1908-1968.
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| ISBN |
0618250816 hardcover |
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9780618250813 hardcover |
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0618250743 PA |
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9780618250745 PA |
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