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Book

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Call Number

  • J 921 BOWDITCH (OSH)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

Physical Description

251 p. ill. ; 22 cm.

Summary

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.

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