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Author:

Latham, Jean Lee.

Title:

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch [sound recording] / by Jean Lee Latham.

Format:

[sound recording] /

Publisher:

Greathall Productions,

Copyright Date:

p2009

Description:

6 sound discs (6.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Bowditch, Nathaniel,--1773-1838--Juvenile fiction.
Mathematicians--Juvenile fiction.
Astronomers--Juvenile fiction.
Navigation--Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life--Juvenile fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Juvenile fiction.
Bowditch, Nathaniel,--1773-1838--Fiction.
Mathematicians--Fiction.
Astronomers--Fiction.
Navigation--Fiction.
Seafaring life--Fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.
Children's audiobooks.
Audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Weiss, Jim. nrt

Notes:

Read by Jim Weiss. Unabridged. Compact discs. Duration: 6:30:00.

Contents:

Good-luck spell -- Privateers -- Word from the pilgrim -- "Boys don't blubber" -- Voice in the night -- "Sail by ash breeze!" -- Almanac -- "Lock, stock, and bookkeeper" -- Anchor to windward -- Freedom -- What next? -- Down to the sea -- Discovery -- Nineteen guns -- "Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!" -- Simple matter of mathematics -- Lunars and moonlight -- Astrea to the rescue -- Strange sailing orders -- Book sailing -- "Sealing is safer" -- Science and sumatra -- Captain Bowditch commanding -- Man against the fog.

Summary:

After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."

ISBN:

1882513622
9781882513628

OCLC:

(OCoLC)465034613

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TAPB572 -- Fairfax Public Library (Fairfax)