{"product_id":"2940013313682","title":"Sunk At Sea","description":"This story starts with the childhood of one of Ballantyne's perpetual\u003cbr\u003eheroes, Will Osten.  Will would love to have a career at sea, but his\u003cbr\u003efather, a very successful businessman, thinks otherwise, so eventually\u003cbr\u003eWill agrees to study medicine.  However, before his studies are over he\u003cbr\u003edecides that he really _must_ go to sea, and he joins a friend of his,\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Dall, on his ship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey travel to the Pacific, where they encounter some very heavy weather\u003cbr\u003eas a result of which a plank is started in the ship's hull, and she\u003cbr\u003estarts to sink.  All attempts to find and stop the leak fail, and she\u003cbr\u003edoes indeed sink, with the crew taking to the boats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEventually they reach a small coral island, but they have not been there\u003cbr\u003elong before a visiting native war-canoe perceives them and takes them to\u003cbr\u003eanother much larger island, where preparations are made to kill and eat\u003cbr\u003ethem.  Luckily there is an old white man there who has long been\u003cbr\u003eaccepted by the natives and who gets our heroes and his friends off this\u003cbr\u003erather dire treatment, but was too late for some of the crew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA visiting sandalwood trader, who does not wish to pay for the cargo he\u003cbr\u003ehas taken on board, fires on the natives, causing our heroes to flee for\u003cbr\u003etheir lives.  A hunt is set up for them.  Luckily a missionary ship\u003cbr\u003ecomes in a few days later, and manages to restore peace.  Our heroes\u003cbr\u003ereturn to the village.  A mission is set up, and a small church,\u003cbr\u003ecomplete with a spire, is built.  Another vessel calls for water, and\u003cbr\u003ewould have opened fire, just for spite, but they see the spire and\u003cbr\u003erestrain themselves.  Our heroes persuade the captain to take them on\u003cbr\u003eboard.  Will has fallen in love with the missionary's daughter, but\u003cbr\u003enevertheless joins the party leaving for the ship, the \"Rover\".  For the\u003cbr\u003esequel see \"Lost in the Forest\".","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082681401584,"sku":"2940013313682","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013313682_p0.jpg?v=1763579232","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013313682","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}