{"product_id":"john-kretschmer-flirting-with-mermaids-9781574091649","title":"Flirting with Mermaids","description":"Over 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe 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.\"","brand":"Sheridan House","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53908636991830,"sku":"9781574091649-G","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/john-kretschmer-flirting-with-mermaids-9781574091649","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}