{"product_id":"2940013301108","title":"The Hot Swamp","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA ROMANCE OF OLD ALBION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOPENS WITH LEAVE-TAKING.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly two thousand seven hundred years ago--or somewhere about eight\u003cbr\u003ehundred years BúCú--there dwelt a Phoenician sea-captain in one of the\u003cbr\u003eeastern sea-ports of Greece--known at that period, or soon after, as\u003cbr\u003eHellas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis captain was solid, square, bronzed, bluff, and resolute, as all\u003cbr\u003esea-captains are--or ought to be--whether ancient or modern.  He owned,\u003cbr\u003eas well as commanded, one of those curious vessels with one mast and a\u003cbr\u003emighty square-sail, fifty oars or so, double-banked, a dragon's tail in\u003cbr\u003ethe stern and a horse's head at the prow, in which the Phoenicians of\u003cbr\u003eold and other mariners were wont to drive an extensive and lucrative\u003cbr\u003etrade in the Mediterranean; sometimes pushing their adventurous keels\u003cbr\u003ebeyond the Pillars of Hercules, visiting the distant Cassiterides or Tin\u003cbr\u003eIsles, and Albion, and even penetrating northward into the Baltic, in\u003cbr\u003esearch of tin, amber, gold, and what not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne morning this captain, whose name was Arkal, sauntered up from the\u003cbr\u003eharbour to his hut, which stood on a conspicuous eminence overlooking\u003cbr\u003ethe bay.  His hands were not thrust into his pockets, because he had no\u003cbr\u003epockets to put them into--the simple tunic of the period being destitute\u003cbr\u003eof such appendages.  Indeed, the coarse linen tunic referred to\u003cbr\u003econstituted the chief part of his costume, the only other portions being\u003cbr\u003ea pair of rude shoes on his feet, a red fez or tarbouche on his bushy\u003cbr\u003ebrown locks, and yards of something wound round his lower limbs to\u003cbr\u003eprotect them from thorns on shore, as well as from the rasping of\u003cbr\u003ecordage and cargo at sea.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068741468400,"sku":"2940013301108","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013301108_p0.jpg?v=1763579589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013301108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}