{"product_id":"a-flick-of-sunshine-9781493060818","title":"A Flick of Sunshine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. Will Jackson survived a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn and running down Alaskan glaciers over a tragically shortened life that ended in a most bizarre and pedestrian incident on the eve of realizing his life's ambition: appointment as master of a ship. After nine months of sometimes perilous life among natives in the South Sea islands in 1884, captured in chapters of a book he helped write, Jackson served on a series of large ships and coastal schooners  all based in the post-Gold Rush boomtown of San Francisco  that took him up and down the west coast from Alaska to Mexico and to the four corners of the earth. His faithful l\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885875310935,"sku":"9781493060818","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-flick-of-sunshine-9781493060818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}