The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Couverture rigide

Defoe, Gideon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297848852 ISBN 13 : 9780297848851

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gideon Defoe is rumoured to be directly related to Daniel Defoe. He was born in 1976 and wrote his first book about pirates to impress a girl. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0297848852
• ISBN 13: 9780297848851
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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