The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Hardcover

Gideon Defoe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297848852 ISBN 13: 9780297848851

Publisher: w&n, 2004

Synopsis

1837: the Victorian Era approaches and the golden age of piracy draws to a close. Worried that his pirates are getting bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies, sitting about on tropical beaches, and trying to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle, the Pirate Captain decides it's time they had an adventure.

A chance encounter with the young Charles Darwin - embarked upon the voyage of discovery that will one day make him famous - leads the Captain and his rag-tag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands to the fog filled streets of Victorian London, where they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, a diabolical Bishop, the Elephant Man, and have an exciting trip to the zoo.

THE PIRATES! is a rollicking read: uproariously funny, unexplainably daft, gently knowing and insightful - one of the very few books to deal with the weighty issues of science versus religion, whilst at the same time featuring a lot of roaring and running people through.

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Review:

very funny, very silly and highly original. (ESQUIRE (August 2004))

deeply funny...This book has cult smash tattooed all over it. (Ashley Davies THE LIST (19.8.04))

A riotous read. (Sam Wostear SUN (3.9.04))

reads like a cross between My First Pirate Adventure Story and a particularly funny episode of Blackadder. (Sarah Tierney CITY LIFE (Manchester, 2.9.04))

[A] very silly book...The astute reader will have understood by now that pirates are involved. But there are also scientists. And damsels in distress. And an evil genius. (Nick Chang FOCUS (November 2004))

a completely insane story. (FLIPSIDE (October 2005) ****)

This charming, original tale will grip you from the first paragraph, and will have you chickling over the pages. (EVENING EXPRESS (ABERDEEN) 17.9.05)

Book Description:

THE PIRATES is a little book with huge potential, a 'Blackadder' for the high seas.

About this edition

• Publisher: w&n
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0297848852
• ISBN 13: 9780297848851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144