Carry on, Mr. Bowditch [cd sound recording]

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Title:

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch [cd sound recording]

Author:

Latham, Jean Lee.

ISBN:

9781882513628

Personal Author:

Latham, Jean Lee.

Publication Information:

[Charlottesville, Va.] : Greathall Productions, p2009.

Physical Description:

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

General Note:

Unabridged.

In container (16 cm.).

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.

Abstract:

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."

Personal Subject:

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838-Juvenile fiction- Compact discs.

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838-Fiction- Compact discs.

Subject Term:

Ship captains -- Biography -- Juvenile literature -- Compact discs.

Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction -- Compact discs.

Astronomers -- Biography -- Juvenile fiction -- Compact discs.

Navigation -- Juvenile fiction -- Compact discs.

Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction -- Compact discs.

Ship captains -- Fiction -- Compact discs.

Mathematicians -- Fiction -- Compact discs.

Astronomers -- Fiction -- Compact discs.