{"product_id":"2940150038707","title":"Lost To The Sea . Book1. Orphaned, Apprenticed, Pressed and Prized.","description":"Set in the 1750's 'Lost to the Sea' is the first in a series of sea stories charting the life of James Johnson; the son of a fisherman. The boy is orphaned at twelve when his entire family are drowned trying to launch their fishing boat into a northeasterly gale.\u003cbr\u003eHe is taken in by the church and educated. A year later, he is apprenticed to a local shipping master and sent to sea on a collier brig.\u003cbr\u003eHe rises quickly and soon becomes Senior Apprentice, but he falls foul of Thomas Brolin, the owner's nephew who has designs on the family fortune and sees him as a rival for the owner's daughter Annabel.\u003cbr\u003eBrolin hires a highwayman to murder James, but the man sees more profit in selling him to the Press-gang.\u003cbr\u003eWe follow his trials, tribulations and triumphs as he struggles to cope with the harsh life 'before the mast' on a merchant brig, and later after being taken by the press gang, on a sloop of war.","brand":"Evan Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068180545776,"sku":"2940150038707","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150038707_p0.jpg?v=1764006630","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150038707","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}