{"product_id":"the-pilot-by-james-fenimore-james-fenimore-cooper-9781606642115","title":"The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Action \u0026 Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), although brought up in privileged circumstances, became a merchant seaman and served for three years as a midshipman in the Navy.\u003c\/strong\u003e His knowledge of the sea would serve him well, in numerous novels through his long career. But it was in The Pilot that he painted the fullest and most engaging picture of the ocean-going adventurer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCooper was prompted by the example of Sir Walter Scott's The Pirate -- a popular novel of merit, but \"not strictly nautical, or true in its details.\" Scott's novel produced in Cooper \"a sudden determination to produce a work which, if it had no other merit, might present truer pictures of the ocean and ships.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Fenimore Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606642111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606642115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aegypan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"James Fenimore Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938699510015,"sku":"9781606642115","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9527229f-df36-46a6-b640-b52ff15eedb5.jpg?v=1681437221","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pilot-by-james-fenimore-james-fenimore-cooper-9781606642115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}