Even that sacrifice is not enough, and his family contracts him into indentured servitude at a chandlery. He dreams of someday attending Harvard University but is forced by his family's financial hardships to quit school and work in his father's cooperage.
In Revolutionary War–era Salem, Massachusetts, a young Nat Bowditch, a young member of a sea-faring family, astounds his schoolteacher with his talent for mathematics. It is an epic tale of adventure and learning. The book is a children's biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, a sailor and mathematician who published the mammoth and comprehensive reference work for seamen: The American Practical Navigator.
Bowditch is a novel by Jean Lee Latham that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1956.
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