{"product_id":"2940016070407","title":"The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHOW GEORGE SAINT LEGER RETURNED FROM FOREIGN PARTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time was mid-afternoon, the date was January the 9th, in the year of\u003cbr\u003eour Lord 1569; and the good town of Plymouth was basking in the hazy\u003cbr\u003esunlight and mild temperature of one of those delightful days that\u003cbr\u003eoccasionally visit the metropolis of the West Country, even in mid-\u003cbr\u003ewinter, under the beneficent influence of the Gulf Stream combined with\u003cbr\u003ea soft but enduring breeze from the south-south-east charged with warm\u003cbr\u003eair from the Saharan desert and the Mediterranean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo mild and genial was the weather that certain lads, imbued with that\u003cbr\u003espirit of lawlessness and adventure which seems inherent in the nature\u003cbr\u003eof the young Briton, had conspired together to defy the authority of\u003cbr\u003etheir schoolmaster by playing truant from afternoon school and going to\u003cbr\u003ebathe in Firestone Bay.  And it was while these lads were dressing,\u003cbr\u003eafter revelling in their stolen enjoyment, that their attention was\u003cbr\u003eattracted by the appearance of a tall ship gliding up the Sound before\u003cbr\u003ethe soft breathing of the languid breeze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat she was a foreign-going ship was evident at a glance, first from\u003cbr\u003eher size, and, secondly, from the whiteness of her canvas, bleached by\u003cbr\u003elong exposure to a southern sun; and as she drew nearer, the display of\u003cbr\u003eflags and pennons which she made, and the sounds of trumpet, fife,\u003cbr\u003ehautboy, and drum which floated down the wind from her seemed to\u003cbr\u003eindicate that her captain regarded his safe arrival in English waters as\u003cbr\u003esomething in the nature of a triumph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the time that she had arrived abreast of Picklecombe Point the\u003cbr\u003ebathers had completely resumed their clothing and, having climbed to the\u003cbr\u003ehighest point within easy reach, now stood interestedly watching the\u003cbr\u003eslow approach of the ship, her progress under the impulse of the gentle\u003cbr\u003ebreeze being greatly retarded by the ebb tide.  Speculation was rife\u003cbr\u003eamong the little group of boys upon the question of the ship's identity,\u003cbr\u003esome maintaining that she must necessarily be a Plymouther, otherwise\u003cbr\u003ewhat was she doing there, while others, for no very clearly denned\u003cbr\u003ereason, expressed the contrary opinion.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101167206640,"sku":"2940016070407","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016070407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}