Carry on, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham
Type
Label
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
biography
Main title
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Medium
sound recording
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not applicable
Oclc number
946480041
Responsibility statement
by Jean Lee Latham
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."
Table Of 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 -- 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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
resource.variantTitle
Carry on, Mister Bowditch
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- Biographical fiction -- Juvenile fiction
- Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction -- Juvenile fiction
- Junior audiobooks on compact disc
- Audiobooks
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1774-1838 -- Juvenile fiction
- Astronomers -- Juvenile fiction
- Mathematicians -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's audiobooks
- Navigation -- Juvenile fiction
- Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction
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Outgoing Resources
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject11
- Biographical fiction -- Juvenile fiction
- Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction -- Juvenile fiction
- Junior audiobooks on compact disc
- Audiobooks
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1774-1838 -- Juvenile fiction
- Astronomers -- Juvenile fiction
- Mathematicians -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's audiobooks
- Navigation -- Juvenile fiction
- Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Narrator1
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