{"product_id":"misty-spires","title":"Misty Spires","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou read it for the first time at fourteen. The towers, the grey stone, the mist, the figures making their way slowly through the valley between the spires. You loved the shapes without ever having seen anything like them in person. Twenty years later you are standing in southern China and you understand for the first time where the writer might have been looking when he wrote the part you remembered. He had never been here. The shapes were already in his head. The shapes are also here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKarst spires rising vertical out of low ground, southern China, with cloud sitting in the gaps between them. The wind moves the cloud through the towers in slow drifts. The same view shown to a thousand visitors will be the only one any of them remember from the trip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA natural fit for \u003cem\u003eA Wizard of Earthsea\u003c\/em\u003e by Ursula K. Le Guin, \u003cem\u003eThe Two Towers\u003c\/em\u003e by J.R.R. Tolkien, or any book first read at the age when stone towers still seemed plausible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Fine Art of Bookmarks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58112175473024,"sku":"TFAOB-S15-B073","price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2346\/9440\/files\/misty-spires-fine-art-bookmark-fine-art-bookmark-cover.jpg?v=1780057128","url":"https:\/\/thefineartofbookmarks.com\/products\/misty-spires","provider":"The Fine Art Of Bookmarks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}