by Gideon Defoe · Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753818701
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«The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists» is the humour novel by Gideon Defoe, published by Phoenix in paperback (176 pages, in English).
In 1837, with the golden age of piracy in decline, the Pirate Captain decides to give his crew a new adventure. An encounter with the young Charles Darwin takes them from the Galápagos Islands to Victorian London, where a murder, missing ladies, a diabolical bishop, the Elephant Man and a visit to the zoo await them.
First instalment of the The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe; the novel was originally published in 2005.
For readers seeking historical comedy and absurd pirate adventures.
Gideon Defoe is an English novelist of The Pirates!, a historical fiction fantasy comedy book series about a group of pirates on their adventures. He also wrote the screenplay for The Pirates! Band of Misfits which is an Aardman Animations stop-motion animated feature film based on The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, the first book in The Pirates! book series. According to his 2020 book An Atlas of Extinct Countries, Defoe also does film development work with Locksmith Animation and StudioCanal and is developing a TV sitcom with BBC Studios.
