{"product_id":"9781574091649","title":"Flirting with Mermaids","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he disocvers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in \"a high impact debris zone,\" but his resolve is unshaken. \"If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega,a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"SHERIDAN HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185562255634,"sku":"9781574091649","price":32.79,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781574091649.jpg?v=1774736405","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781574091649","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}