Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
By: by Jean Lee Latham
Contributors: Weiss, Jim, narrator
Publisher: The Well-Trained Mind Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
ISBN-13: 9781942968580
Subjects: Astronomers; Mathematicians; Navigation; Juvenile fiction; History; Seafaring life; Fiction
Other titles: Carry on, Mister Bowditch
Description: 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."
Notes: Unabridged.

Compact discs.

Produced and directed by Jim Weiss.

Read by Jim Weiss.

Accelerated Reader MG 4.1 8 16

Newbery Medal, 1956.
Table of contents: title: Good-luck spell; title: Privateers; title: Word from the pilgrim; title: "Boys don't blubber"; title: Voice in the night; title: "Sail by ash breeze!"; title: Almanac; title: "Lock, stock, and bookkeeper"; title: Anchor to windward; title: Freedom; title: What next?; title: Down to the sea; title: Discovery; title: Nineteen guns; title: "Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!"; title: Simple matter of mathematics; title: Lunars and moonlight; title: Astrea to the rescue; title: Strange sailing orders; title: Book sailing; title: "Sealing is safer"; title: Science and sumatra; title: Captain Bowditch commanding; title: Man against the fog.