The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Brossura

Defoe, Gideon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1408824957 ISBN 13: 9781408824955

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2012

Riassunto

Just make sure we've got plenty of hams on board. I didn't really enjoy our last adventure much because we ran out of hams about halfway through. And what's my motto? I like ham!

It is 1837, and for the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain and his rag-tag pirate crew, life on the high seas has gotten a little dull. With nothing to do but twiddle their hooks and lounge aimlessly on tropical beaches, the Captain decides it's time they had an adventure.

A surprisingly successful boat raid leads them to the young Charles Darwin, in desperate need of their help. And so the pirates set forth for London in a bid to save the scientist from the evil machinations of a diabolical Bishop. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, the Elephant Man - and have an exciting trip to the zoo.

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Recensione:

'A timber-shivering adventure that speaks to the pirate in all of us' (Ben Schott)

'A short, deliriously funny novel about incredibly stupid pirates and ham ... I've had to grow a luxuriant beard to conceal the grin that's been compromising my dignity since I read it' (Ardal O'Hanlon)

'Hilarious. Destined to become a classic of pirate comic fiction' (Eric Idle)

'Gideon Defoe definitively puts the "Ho ho!" - and, indeed, the "Yo!" - into
pirating"

(Caitlin Moran)

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Now a major motion picture from Aardman Animations and Sony Picture

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1408824957
• ISBN 13: 9781408824955
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224