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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
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.
Eli Whitney, Great Inventor
A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.
Trail Blazer of the Seas
From the author of Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal, Jean Lee Latham writes an absorbing biography of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the man considered to be the father of modern oceanography. In the early 1800s, the voyage from New York to San Francisco took six months. That was before Maury, a lieutenant in the US Navy, blazed a trail for ships to follow. The first ship to follow Maury's directions based on his wind and current charts cut nearly two months off that time. Later, clipper ships cut that time in half. For seven years Maury had fought against skepticism and bitter opposition, for the cooperation needed to gather data for his charts. Years later, at a worldwide ...
The Story of Eli Whitney
A biography of Eli Whitney tracing his long legal journey to win rights over his pirated cotton gin and to fulfill his Government contract for ten thousand muskets with interchangable parts.
Thanks Awfully
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Young Man in a Hurry
A biography of the man who rose from debt to amass a small fortune, and became the driving force behind the successful laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Study Guide
A study guide to accompany the reading of Carry on, Mr. Bowditch in the classroom featuring suggested discussion questions, vocabulary work, work sheets, related Bible passages and further readings.
Redskin and Cowboy
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