{"product_id":"9781493127948","title":"Caprice Letan: A Search For An Island","description":"CAPRICE LETAN is a book of short novels, what is held together by my life full of adventures, and my recent sailing trip across the South -Pacific Ocean. I began to write it in a Bay in  Nuku  Hiva Island In The Marquesas Group on the way to Tahiti. I am on a 10 meter long sailing boat Called : Dolphin  Dancer. I bought her in 2011 October and sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge 6 weeks later. I stopped at St. Catalina Island for a short spell, however, it’s too cold for me there. I can’t deny it I Am a Tropical Person Now. Nobody can sell me snow, unless he mixes it with sugar and lime juice first, moreover call it Lemon Ice cream. I should had been born as a small black boy, on a tropical island, with a fishing rod in my hand and a hat like Huckleberry Finn used to wear on his raft on the Mississippi .   Lately I buy and sell boats yearly, it’s a bad habit of mine . I should stop it, but can’t afford it, because it keeps me in cash . I fix them up quick and sell them for little extra . I can buy an air ticket and fly back to The Top of the hill and slide down again with a new boat . Not all slides are without accident, as you rightfully guessed .        Dolphin Dancer is my tenth boat in line. Number four Antilia broken in half, in a category 5 hurricane  in the lagoon of St. Martin, and never sailed at all .  I could not decide which half to use to sail onwards . She was a schooner, so had 2 masts, enough  for 2 boats but the hull was of concrete . Yes she was a Floating pavement . Not many around anymore. “ I wonder why? “        Some of my boats I sold as far as New Caledonia, Gibraltar and the Seychelles . Yes I sailed a lot .  But do not chuck this book away, because you do not like boats and sea , the better half of this book is about normal land dwellers like you and  poor me . Yes I was born on land, not even on the nicest part of it, and had to wade my way towards the sea, like a seal virtually on my belly.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130697040112,"sku":"9781493127948","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781493127948_p0.jpg?v=1763663225","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781493127948","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}