An edition of Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
(2016)
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham
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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."
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Astronomers, Mathematicians, Navigation, Juvenile fiction, History, Seafaring life, FictionPlaces
Salem (Mass.)Times
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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
2016, The Well-Trained Mind Press
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in English
1942968582 9781942968580
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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 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.
Edition Notes
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Produced and directed by Jim Weiss.
Read by Jim Weiss.
Accelerated Reader MG 4.1 8 16
Newbery Medal, 1956.
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