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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 fogĪfter 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.'Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:58:10 Boxid IA161201 Boxid_2 CH113401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Boston Donor A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.

Carry on mr bowditch by jean lee latham