{"product_id":"9781618090393","title":"Embarcadero: True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906","description":"There are no tales like high-sea tales and here's a baker's dozen of true sea adventures-tales filled with salt spray, blood-and-thunder, and man-overboard action all guaranteed to satisfy the hardiest armchair adventurer. \u003cp\u003eResearched from ships' logs, manuscripts, newspaper accounts and historical records and penned by Richard Dillon a gifted storyteller and one of California's finest historians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's a sampling:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"San Francisco's Own Pirate\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of Captain Bully Hayes, who had a habit of running off with other men's ships-and sometimes their women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Odyssey of Bernard Gilboy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow a courageous, publicity dodging navigator, alone in an eighteen-foot open craft, sailed from San Francisco to Australia without touching land en route.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shanghai Days in Frisco\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow crimps like Shanghai Kelly perfected the fine art of kidnaping sailors for the dreaded China run and made East Street (as San Francisco's Embarcadero was called for a time) a thoroughfare to be given a wide berth after dusk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Write Thought, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056732651760,"sku":"9781618090393","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618090393_p0.jpg?v=1763851131","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618090393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}