{"product_id":"poor-jack-paperback","title":"Poor Jack - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrederick Marryat\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have every reason to believe that I was born in the year of our Lord 1786, for more than once I put the question to my father, and he invariably made the same reply: \"Why, Jack, you were launched a few months before the Druids were turned over to the Melpomene.\" I have since ascertained that this remarkable event occurred in January 1787. But my father always reckoned in this way: if you asked him when such an event took place, he would reply, so many years or months after such a naval engagement or remarkable occurrence; as, for instance, when I one day inquired how many years he had served the King, he responded, \"I came into the sarvice a little afore the battle of Bunker's Hill, in which we licked the Americans clean out of Boston.\" (I have since heard a different version of the result of this battle.) As for Anno Domini, he had no notion of it whatever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42116320428167,"sku":"9781515284161","price":10.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0a4c657e114e019055ca85b9476c938a.webp?v=1732515557","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/poor-jack-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}