{"product_id":"9781632095954","title":"White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War","description":"It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show.\u003cp\u003eThe way I came by it was this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru-her last harbour in the Pacific-I found myself without a grego, or sailor's surtout; and as, toward the end of a three years' cruise, no pea-jackets could be had from the purser's steward: and being bound for Cape Horn, some sort of a substitute was indispensable; I employed myself, for several days, in manufacturing an outlandish garment of my own devising, to shelter me from the boisterous weather we were so soon to encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was nothing more than a white duck frock, or rather shirt: which, laying on deck, I folded double at the bosom, and by then making a continuation of the slit there, opened it lengthwise-much as you would cut a leaf in the last new novel. The gash being made, a metamorphosis took place, transcending any related by Ovid. For, presto! the shirt was a coat!-a strange-looking coat, to be sure; of a Quakerish amplitude about the skirts; with an infirm, tumble-down collar; and a clumsy fullness about the wristbands; and white, yea, white as a shroud. And my shroud it afterward came very near proving, as he who reads further will find.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trajectory, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130768965872,"sku":"9781632095954","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632095954_p0.jpg?v=1763673480","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632095954","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}