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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

by Gideon Defoe

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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

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.

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Very funny

As with most of the great works of literature, this masterpiece was written to impress a girl. This is the sort of book that gets you funny looks on the train as you sit there happily smiling and laughing away to yourself like some sort of idiot. It is very silly and very, very funny.

Review by Simon of the Borders on 2009-04-07 15:11:59

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