Book · Kindle · 1955
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
81Living historically.
A book about a mind put to work. Rare, and worth it.
The review
Most stories now reward the person who disrupts a room. Bowditch corrects a book so strangers he will never meet do not wreck their ships. That is a different fame, and a boy can want it if someone puts the want in front of him.
The sailing detail is thick. Stay with it. The thickness is the compliment: the work was specific, so the story is specific.
Journal
Keep Carry On, Mr. Bowditch in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 81. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 10Industry
Indenture, numbers, and a ship. Competence is the plot.
- 6Household
Family is the start. The sea takes the years.
- 6Piety
He is serious. The book does not sneer at serious people.
- 8Courage
He corrects a lie in the navigation tables while men could die of it.
- 8Republic
He teaches the crew instead of hoarding the knowledge.
- 8Temperance
Ambition is aimed at a true chart, not at being seen.
- 9Truth
The point of the book is that the old tables were wrong and he said so.
- 10Stewardship
The American Practical Navigator is the thing he leaves.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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