| Description |
6 audio discs (6.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Performer |
Read by Jim Weiss. |
| Credits |
Produced and directed by Jim Weiss. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
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Compact discs. |
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Duration: 6:30:00. |
| Awards |
Newbery Medal, 1956. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Mathematicians -- Juvenile fiction.
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Astronomers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Navigation -- Juvenile fiction.
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Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 -- Fiction.
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Mathematicians -- Fiction.
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Astronomers -- Fiction.
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Navigation -- Fiction.
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Seafaring life -- Fiction.
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Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Children's audiobooks.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Weiss, Jim. Narrator.
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| Added Title |
Carry on, Mister Bowditch |
| ISBN |
9781882513628 |
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1882513622 |
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