Author: Jean Lee Latham
Age Range: 12 and upGrade Level: 7 - 9
Lexile Measure: 570
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Hmh Books for Young Readers; English Language edition (May 19, 2003)
ISBN: 9780618250745
Details: Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,? an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor?s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn?t 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 “log, lead, and lookout.? Nat?s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailors? Bible?), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.
UPC: 046442250740
EAN: 9780618250745
Package Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
Languages: English