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Latham, Jean Lee.
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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.
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Carry on, Mr. Bowdit...
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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch [compact disc] / by Jean Lee Latham.
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Latham, Jean Lee.
[Charlottesville, Va.] : Greathall Productions, p2009.
Subjects
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.
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9781882513628 (set) :
Description:
6 audio discs (6.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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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."
Awards:
Newbery Medal, 1956.
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