{"product_id":"the-lost-voyage-of-john-cabot-9781416954606","title":"The Lost Voyage of John Cabot","description":"1498. Sebastian Cabot age fifteen, can only wait and wonder. His famous father has abandoned him at home in Bristol, England, but has taken the boy's older and younger brothers, Ludovico and Sancio, on his second voyage in search of the Asian mainland. On his first journey, sailing north across the Western Ocean in 1497, John Cabot had discovered the New Found Land. He returned to England a hero. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFive years earlier, Spain had given Christopher Columbus a similar welcome. He had found Asia, he claimed. And by a southern route. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCabot was skeptical and set out to the north again to prove his old friend a fraud. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut silence followed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, Sebastian and history are confronted with a tantalizing mystery. What has become of Cabot's second endeavor? Letters to the boy from fourteen-year-old Sancio tell of a fearsome storm and its aftermath. They, and the surprising climax to Sebastian's and Sancio's shared story, make for unforgettable voyaging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Garfield\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Belfast, Maine, where he keeps a small sailboat for explorations of the coastal waters. He is the author of three mystery-\u003cbr\u003esuspense novels: \u003ci\u003eMoondog, Room 13, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTartabull's Throw, \u003c\/i\u003e and writes a regular column for villagesoup.com, an Internet newspaper in Maine. He is the great-great-grandson of President James A. Garfield, the last U.S. president born in a log cabi\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50849879818514,"sku":"9781416954606","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c0e38981-8a7f-46dd-aa76-e24be6d19b77.jpg?v=1737403233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lost-voyage-of-john-cabot-9781416954606","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}