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Pirates! in An Adventure With Scientists

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作者：Gideon Defoe 著

出版社：Weidenfeld & Nicolson

出版时间：2004-08-26

I S B N：9780297848851

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Pirates! in An Adventure With Scientists

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'A riotous read.' -- Sam Wostear, SUN (3.9.04)'This charming, original tale will grip you from the first paragraph, and will have you chickling over the pages.' -- EVENING EXPRESS (ABERDEEN) 17.9.05'[A] very silly book...The astute reader will have understood by now that pirates are involved. But there are also scientists. And damsels in distress. And an evil genius.' -- Nick Chang, FOCUS (November 2004)'a completely insane story.' -- FLIPSIDE (October 2005) ****'deeply funny...This book has cult smash tattooed all over it.' -- Ashley Davies, THE LIST (19.8.04)'reads like a cross between My First Pirate Adventure Story and a particularly funny episode of Blackadder.' -- Sarah Tierney, CITY LIFE (Manchester, 2.9.04)'very funny, very silly and highly original.' -- ESQUIRE (August 2004)

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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.