{"product_id":"letters-from-sea-1882-1901-9780884482147","title":"Letters from Sea 1882  1901","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn June of 1881, on the very night of their wedding in Searsport, Maine, Captain Lincoln Alden Colcord and his new wife, Jane Sweetser Colcord, departed for sea to begin a two-year voyage on the bark Charlotte A. Littlefield.The voyage would take them around the world and witness the birth of their daughter Joanna amid the South Sea Islands and young Lincoln''s arrival during a treacherous winter storm off Cape Horn.Fifth generation seafarers, Joanna and Lincoln Colcord spent their youth at sea aboard their fathers'' ships.Years later, looking back at his seafaring childhood Lincoln wrote, I know no other home than a ship''s deck, except the distant home in Maine that we visited for a few weeks every year or two.My countryside was the ocean floor, where I could roam only with the spyglass; my skyline was the horizon, broken by the ghostly silhouettes of passing vessels, or at intervals by the coasts of many continents, as we sailed the world.The Colcords'' richly detailed journal lette","brand":"Tilbury House,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528418009431,"sku":"9780884482147","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780884482147.jpg?v=1731871549","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/letters-from-sea-1882-1901-9780884482147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}