{"product_id":"9780374707002","title":"Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAssembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by\u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e officers, \u003ci\u003eSea of Gray\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful narrative of men at sea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer \u003ci\u003eSea King \u003c\/i\u003eleft London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour months after the Civil War was over, the \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirate—a hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A superb account of how the Confederate raider \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world.\" -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSea of Glory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103998394608,"sku":"9780374707002","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374707002_p0.jpg?v=1769913068","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374707002","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}