Carry On, Mr. Bowditch: A Newbery Award Winner
Newbery Medal Winner
Readers today are still fascinated by āNat,ā an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.
Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailorās worldāSalem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didnāt 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 ālog, lead, and lookout.ā Natās long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the āSailorsā Bibleā), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.
Newbery Medal Winner
Readers today are still fascinated by āNat,ā an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.
Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailorās worldāSalem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didnāt 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 ālog, lead, and lookout.ā Natās long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the āSailorsā Bibleā), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.
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Newbery Medal Winner
Readers today are still fascinated by āNat,ā an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.
Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailorās worldāSalem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didnāt 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 ālog, lead, and lookout.ā Natās long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the āSailorsā Bibleā), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.
