{"product_id":"2940152898187","title":"The Hero of Negropont","description":"\u003cp\u003eA travel book, a comedy, a history, a fiction...\u003cbr\u003eTo escape debt and summonses, rakish Lord Exford is exiled in 1788 to Constantinople with a prudish tutor and a truculent artist. They are shipwrecked on a Greek island ruled by a Turkish pasha and populated with stories of passion and delusion. Star-crossed lovers, renegades and minstrels, pirates and djinn are just some of the characters our travellers encounter. They also meet Amelia Burbage, a A comedy, a history, a traveller's tale of love and adventure...join young Lord Exford on his journey to the Greece of heroines and philosophers, pashas and janissaries.\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1788. George III is on the throne. To escape debt and court summonses the rakish Exford is exiled to Constantinople with a prudish tutor and a truculent artist. On the way they are shipwrecked on a Greek island ruled by a Turkish pasha and populated with stories of passion and delusion. Star-crossed lovers, renegades and minstrels, pirates and djinn are just some of the characters our travellers encounter. They also meet Amelia Burbage,a botanist, feminist and intrepid explorer, accompanied by her Syrian servant and their irascible camel.\u003cbr\u003eBefuddled by a heady mix of the pasha's hashish, amorous ardour and his classical education, Exford's delusional tutor takes on the might of the Sultan and it is left to the wily Exford to deliver his eccentric band from an unspeakable fate., feminist and intrepid explorer, with her Syrian servant and an irascible camel.\u003cbr\u003eBefuddled by love, hashish and his classical education, Exford’s tutor takes on the might of the Sultan and it is left to the wily Exford to deliver his eccentric band from an unspeakable fate.\u003cbr\u003eBetween Ancient Greece and Modern Greece were four centuries of Ottoman Greece. Join Lord Exford on his grand tour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Mole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183399813360,"sku":"2940152898187","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152898187_p0.jpg?v=1764026494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152898187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}