The Pirates! in an Adventure With Scientists
Gideon Defoe
176 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0753818701
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2005
AdultAdventureComedyFantasyFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionHumorPiratesYoung Adult
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.