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The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe (2004, Hardcover) 
The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe (2004, Hardcover)

 
The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe (2004, Hardcover)

Author: Gideon Defoe
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375423214
ISBN-13: 9780375423215
Product ID: EPID30522646
Description: This hilarious first novel by Gideon Defoe (apparently a descendent of Daniel Defoe, who wrote ROBINSON CRUSOE) takes place in 1837 and features a cast of bored pirates. Desperate for the kind of adventures pirates are supposed to engage...
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Synopsis
This hilarious first novel by Gideon Defoe (apparently a descendent of Daniel Defoe, who wrote ROBINSON CRUSOE) takes place in 1837 and features a cast of bored pirates. Desperate for the kind of adventures pirates are supposed to engage in, their captain links the band up with Charles Darwin on a voyage to the Galapagos Islands and, eventually, to Victorian London. There they become involved in the venerable conflict over science vs. religion, when, as the newfangled evolutionary theories shake up the bishop of Oxford, Darwin enlists the pirates to help him win the argument.

Details
Publication Date:2004-10-01

Size
Length:133 pages
Height:6.8 in
Width:4.8 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:7.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Not since Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives for months at a time at sea, somehow manages to keep his beard silky and in good condition.

Worried that his pirates are growing bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies and trying to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle, the Pirate Captain decides it's high time to spearhead an adventure.

While searching for some major pirate booty, he mistakenly attacks the young Charles Darwin's Beagle and then leads his ragtag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands to the fog-filled streets of Victorian London. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, radioactive elephants, and the Holy Ghost himself. And that's not even the half of it.

Industry Reviews
"Silly and very droll debut by a London paleontologist who likes pirates and has obviously grown up on old Monty Python reruns....All that's missing are some silly songs and Terry Gilliam animations. Completely juvenile and thoroughly enchanting."
Kirkus (08/15/2004)

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