Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Paperback)

from ABVR

Captivating based-on-fact tale of young Nat Bowditch, who grows up in a seafaring family in Salem, MA just after the Revolution and becomes world-famous as a ship's navigator and practical mathematician. One of the most important books of my youth . . . a revelation for a kid who, like Nat, didn'...

from ctpress

"Mathematics is nothing if it isn't correct! Men's lives depend on those figures!" Nathaniel Bowditch utters these words almost in rage in this biography of his life. Nat is a nerd - a genius with numbers - and he revolutionized navigation in the late 18th century - eventually writing The America...

from SeriousGrace

This was reminiscent of Laura Ingalls Wilder's account about growing up in the unorganized territories of the midwest in the Little House series; better known as historical fiction. I call it biographical with a little imagination thrown in. It covers the life of Nathanial Bowditch, navigator ext...

from hobbitprincess

At one time, I had planned to read all the Newbery Medal books, but I never finished. This one, however, is by an author from Buckhannon, WV, so I wanted to make sure I did at least read it. It's great! The novel tells the a fictionalized story of the life of Nathanial Bowditch, a famous early Am...

from landism

This is a children's (somewhat fictionalized) biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, a mathematician who wrote a much more accurate edition of The American Practical Navigator. Nathaniel Bowditch's work was important for sailors who needed a reliable navigation system when they were far out at sea. Car...