{"product_id":"the-last-shot-9780060523343","title":"The Last Shot","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlending high-seas adventure and first-rate research, The Last Shot is naval history of the very first order, offering a riveting account of the last Southern military force to lay down its arms in June 1865. Following orders received the previous autumn, the Confederate raider \u003cem\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/em\u003e fell upon a fleet of whalers out of New England working the waters near Alaska's Little Diomede Island. More than two dozen ships went down in a frenzy of destruction that occurred three months after the South's official surrender. In breathtaking detail, author Lynn Schooler re-creates one of the most astonishing events in American military history—a final act of war that brought about the near-demise of the New England whaling industry and effectively ended America's growing hegemony over worldwide shipping for the next eighty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchooler, Lynn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eLynn Schooler, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Bear\u003c\/em\u003e, has lived in Alaska for more than thirty years. He is a two-time winner of \u003cem\u003eAlaska\u003c\/em\u003e magazine's grand prize for wildlife photography and winner of the National Wildlife grand prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917423939858,"sku":"9780060523343","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b79e079-22fd-4f39-9140-9d0525a9d80e.jpg?v=1738866863","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-shot-9780060523343","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}