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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch tells the inspiring, true adventures of Nat Bowditch, a boy during the American Revolution, whose passion for learning and unstoppable spirit lead him from poverty and servitude to triumph and adventure at sea. This audiobook is performed by master narrator Jim Weiss.
Winner of the American Library Association’s 1956 Newbery Award for “the most distinguished contribution of American literature for children.”Â
Chapter List
1. Good-luck Spell
2. Privateers
3. Word from the Pilgrim
4. “Boys Don’t blubber”
5. Voice in the Night
6. “Sail by Ash Breeze!”
7. Almanac
8. “Lock, Stock, and Bookkeeper”
9. Anchor to Windward
10. Freedom
11. What Next?
12. Down to the Sea
13. Discovery
14. Nineteen Guns
15. “Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!”
16. Simple Matter of Mathematics
17. Lunars and Moonlight
18. Astrea to the Rescue
19. Strange Sailing Orders
20. Book Sailing
21. “Sealing is Safer”
22. Science and Sumatra
23. Captain Bowditch Commanding
24. Man Against the Fog
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch tells the inspiring, true adventures of Nat Bowditch, a boy during the American Revolution, whose passion for learning and unstoppable spirit lead him from poverty and servitude to triumph and adventure at sea. This audiobook is performed by master narrator Jim Weiss.
Winner of the American Library Association’s 1956 Newbery Award for “the most distinguished contribution of American literature for children.”Â
Chapter List
1. Good-luck Spell
2. Privateers
3. Word from the Pilgrim
4. “Boys Don’t blubber”
5. Voice in the Night
6. “Sail by Ash Breeze!”
7. Almanac
8. “Lock, Stock, and Bookkeeper”
9. Anchor to Windward
10. Freedom
11. What Next?
12. Down to the Sea
13. Discovery
14. Nineteen Guns
15. “Sail Ho-O-O-O-O!”
16. Simple Matter of Mathematics
17. Lunars and Moonlight
18. Astrea to the Rescue
19. Strange Sailing Orders
20. Book Sailing
21. “Sealing is Safer”
22. Science and Sumatra
23. Captain Bowditch Commanding
24. Man Against the Fog
Additional Information
| Author | |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Jim Weiss |
| Publisher | |
| Age Range | 7 and Up |
| Length | Unabridged |
| Duration | 6.5 hours |
Julie
5 out of 5 Perseverance in trials
It is almost hard to believe this story is true as Nat suffers trial after trial, but it is written beautifully and kept my 10 and 7 year old girls and myself enthralled as we cried, hoped, and cheered for him. It’s a story of true perseverance and trading beauty for ashes; of clinging to goodness and mercy; of working hard as unto God and not just for man; and of peering beyond the present to glimpse the hope and in the beauty in education. We always enjoy being read aloud to by the master readers and this reading by Jim Weiss is no exception. We appreciated and relished this experience. Some concepts or vocabulary will need to be further explained to youngsters to be able to better grasp the story of course, but it abounds with oppourtunity to spark beautiful conversations and hope for the reasons why we study, grow, and learn and lends vision for just where our hard work may lead us. His story is a lesson in the wonder of carrying on to life when the odds and heartbreak are real and stacked against us. It takes the reader out of self, especially self pity, and into the world of possibilities if healthy kindness and determination are chosen over detrimental fixations on what is not healthy like anger, resentment, complaining, bitterness etc. I found this to be Well worth listening to as a family and used it to relate his experience to our modern trials, no matter the size. With such sadness and exponential rises in suicide rates, this book could just help provide a preventative shift in mindset to a future or present
threat of vulnerability. How invaluable would that be?
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Karen
Question
Is this an audiobook (reading of the text) or a retelling of the story in Jim W’s own words?
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Press Minion
This is an unabridged, word-for-word reading of the text.
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Disha Patel
3 out of 5 okay
this book is not very fun to read if you dont care about sailing, because literally all it talks about is sailing. But i mostly acknowledge nats dedication to studying weep weep
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