{"product_id":"9780374712471","title":"Landfalls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery from \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaomi J. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France.\u003cbr\u003e     Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, \u003ci\u003eLandfalls\u003c\/i\u003e follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage-natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and is set in a different part of the world-ranging from London to Tenerife, Alaska to remote South Pacific islands and Siberia, and eventually back to France. The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era.\u003cbr\u003e     By turns elegiac, profound, and comic, \u003ci\u003eLandfalls\u003c\/i\u003e reinvents the maritime adventure novel for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104141164784,"sku":"9780374712471","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374712471_p0.jpg?v=1769917170","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374712471","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}