{"covers": [6660127], "first_publish_date": "1954", "key": "/works/OL174895W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2172442A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "American Captain", "lc_classifications": ["PZ3.M3565 Am", "PS3525.A7266 Am"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The novel starts in 1796 with Homer Whitman, American sailor, sailing with his ship to escape a failed romance. The ship was attacked by the Barbary pirates and Homor was given a debt to pay with took eighteen years, most in Africa. Here he found the gold needed to complete his task. Maine, Malta, Tripoli, the tents of the Bedouin, a tomb in Sudan, Capetown, the palaces and gaming rooms of London - and home!"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, general"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-20T17:13:33.315131"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-02-28T13:39:46.833062"}}