{"product_id":"9781934757581","title":"Under The Meteor Flag","description":"William Joseph Cosens Lancaster was the son of a Royal Navy captain and educated at the Naval College, Greenwhich. Even though he had been at sea since the age of 15, he had to abandon a career in the Royal Navy because of severe myopia which kept him from clearly seeing anything more than a few hundred yards away. \u003cp\u003eUndaunted, he became a marine engineer specializing in harbor design. He also became one of the most prolific writers of nautical fiction of his day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1886 and 1913 he wrote 23 nautically-related novels under the pseudonym of \"Harry Collingwood\"-a name he derived from his hero Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Nelson's second in command at Trafalgar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis most commercially successful book was The Pirate Island written in 1884; but Under the Meteor Flag, written the previous year, might be his most action-packed. It is the story of a young midshipman who, like many of Marryat's characters, is trying to make his way in the new and often incomprehensible world of the 18th Century Royal Navy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the story of the midshipman that Lancaster never was, but it is written by a man who literally spent his whole life dealing with the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fireship Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059487228144,"sku":"9781934757581","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934757581_p0.jpg?v=1763642129","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934757581","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}