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LEADER: 01756cam a2200361Ia 4500
001 2135186
003 NOBLE
005 20010122140016.0
008 870605r19831955maua j 000 1 eng d
010 $z55005219
020 $a0395068819 (hc) :
035 $a(OCoLC)15814480
040 $aEDM$cEDM$dOCL
049 $aPANA
099 $aFiction$aL3468c
100 1 $aLatham, Jean Lee.$0(NOBLE)41802
245 10 $aCarry on, Mr. Bowditch /$cby Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c1983.
300 $a251 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
586 $aNewbery Medal, 1956.
500 $aFirst published in 1955.
500 $aWinner of the Newbery Award for 1956.
520 $aAfter 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." A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer Nathaniel Bowditch, who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
650 0 $aNavigation$vJuvenile fiction.
600 10 $aBowditch, Nathaniel,$d1773-1838$xJuvenile fiction.
600 11 $aBowditch, Nathaniel,$d1773-1838.$vFiction.
650 1 $aNavigation$vFiction.
700 1 $aCosgrave, John O'Hara,$d1908-1968$eillus.
902 $a120402
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