{"product_id":"2940013265158","title":"Chasing The Sun","description":"Our Hero, Fred Temple, has risen to be a senior manager in the great\u003cbr\u003eLiverpool business founded by his father.  But he was getting overworked\u003cbr\u003eand deeply tired, so one day he announced that he was taking leave for a\u003cbr\u003ewhile and was going to visit Norway in a small yacht.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBallantyne had several holidays in Norway, so to write about it and\u003cbr\u003edescribe it was a pleasure to him.  This book is therefore an account of\u003cbr\u003eNorway seen through the eyes of an enthusiast for that country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred takes some friends with him.  Together, they have great adventures\u003cbr\u003eand great fun.  They even venture so far north as Lapland, and the Land\u003cbr\u003eof the Midnight Sun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful piece of vintage Victoriana at its best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREPARATIONS FOR THE CHASE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had a romantic spirit, a quiet gentlemanly manner, a pleasant smile,\u003cbr\u003eand a passionate desire for violent exercise.  To look at him you would\u003cbr\u003ehave supposed that he was rather a lazy man, for all his motions were\u003cbr\u003eslow and deliberate.  He was never in a hurry, and looked as if it would\u003cbr\u003etake a great deal to excite him.  But those who knew Fred Temple well\u003cbr\u003eused to say that there was a great deal more in him than appeared at\u003cbr\u003efirst sight.  Sometimes a sudden flush of the brow, or a gleam of his\u003cbr\u003eeyes, told of hidden fires within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred, when a small boy, was extremely fond of daring and dangerous\u003cbr\u003eexpeditions.  He had risked his life hundreds of times on tree-tops and\u003cbr\u003eprecipices for birds' nests, and had fought more hand-to-hand battles\u003cbr\u003ethan any of the old Greek or Roman heroes.  After he became a man, he\u003cbr\u003erisked his life more than once in saving the lives of others, and it was\u003cbr\u003ea notable fact that many of the antagonists of his boyhood became, at\u003cbr\u003elast, his most intimate friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Temple was fair and ruddy.  At about the age of nineteen certain\u003cbr\u003eparts of his good-looking face became covered with a substance\u003cbr\u003eresembling floss-silk.  At twenty-five this substance had changed into a\u003cbr\u003epair of light whiskers and a lighter moustache.  By means of that\u003cbr\u003ebarbarous custom called shaving he kept his chin smooth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred's father was a wealthy Liverpool merchant.  At the period when our\u003cbr\u003etale opens Fred himself had become chief manager of the business.\u003cbr\u003ePeople began, about this time, to say that the business could not get on\u003cbr\u003ewithout him.  There were a great number of hands, both men and women,\u003cbr\u003eemployed by Temple and Son, and there was not one on the establishment,\u003cbr\u003emale or female, who did not say and believe that Mr Frederick was the\u003cbr\u003ebest master, not only in Liverpool, but in the whole world.  He did not\u003cbr\u003eby any means overdose the people with attentions; but he had a hearty\u003cbr\u003eoffhand way of addressing them that was very attractive.  He was a firm\u003cbr\u003eruler.  No skulker had a chance of escape from his sharp eye, but, on\u003cbr\u003ethe other hand, no hard-working servant was overlooked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day it was rumoured in the works that Mr Frederick was going to\u003cbr\u003etake a long holiday.  Since his appointment to the chief charge, Fred\u003cbr\u003ehad taken few holidays, and had worked so hard that he began to have a\u003cbr\u003ecareworn aspect, so the people said they were \"glad to hear it; no one\u003cbr\u003ein the works deserved a long holiday better than he.\"  But the people\u003cbr\u003ewere not a little puzzled when Bob Bowie, the office porter, told them\u003cbr\u003ethat their young master was going away for three months to chase the\u003cbr\u003esun!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Chase the sun, Bob! what d'ye mean?\" said one.  \"I don't know wot I\u003cbr\u003emean; I can only tell ye wot I say,\" answered Bowie bluntly.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082468147440,"sku":"2940013265158","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013265158_p0.jpg?v=1763579127","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013265158","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}