The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists: A Novel
Written by Gideon Defoe
Narrated by John Lee
4.5/5
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Not since Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives for months at a time at sea, somehow manages to keep his beard silky and in good condition.
Worried that his pirates are growing bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies and trying to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle, the Pirate Captain decides it's high time to spearhead an adventure.
While searching for some major pirate booty, he mistakenly attacks the young Charles Darwin's Beagle and then leads his ragtag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands to the fog-filled streets of Victorian London. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, radioactive elephants, and the Holy Ghost himself. And that's not even the half of it.
Gideon Defoe
Gideon Defoe was born in 1975 and lives in London. He is the author of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, which has been made into a stop-motion animation film by Sony/Aardman, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon. www.gideondefoe.com @gideondefoe
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Reviews for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm a sucker for fiction writers who use footnotes.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A thousand times better than Polidori's "The Vampyr." Though that really isn't saying much if you, like me, have ever had the misfortune to read that story. But certainly the best in the Pirates series to date. I mean what's not to love about the pirates and the Romantics together! It's as if Gideon Defoe (and I still doubt the veracity of that name) wrote this book just for me. As always, I think I scared people with my laughter during my commute to work. The laughter comes not just from the downright silliness of the book (and footnotes) but from the wonderful in jokes for anyone who knows both pirates and Romantics (Castle Ruthven, hah!). And since I've spent much of my life studying both (I'm not PirateJenny for absolutely no reason and Byron just happens to be my favorite poet), I was in heaven. Plus the fact that the only recurring character with a name is Jennifer and she and Byron get rather close, well, that obviously sealed it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So. Funny. I've loved all of The Pirates! books, and this was another shining gem. I read most of this on a train and probably startled several people around me because I kept having to stifle laughing incredibly hard. This adventure is light, silly, funny, and most of all fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Despite the long wait, the new Pirates! book is every bit as good as the previous ones. Defoe's still got it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5BrilliantReturn of the inimitable Pirates! In another crazy adventureWe start off in Switzerland with the Pirate captain visiting the bank looking to extend his overdraft (yes the pirate ship is on the lake). But Switzerland is deadly dull and Byron (yes that Byron) is tempted to commit suicide to liven things up. “Are you sure it’s the right address?”“Villa Diodati” said the pirate with the scarf, “that’s what it says on the gate”“You don’t think some other coves beat us to it do you, number 2? Neptune’s lips! I hope it wasn’t those confounded cowboys, peddling their idiotic Stetson and cactus based adventures!”Luckily the Pirates turn up and sweep the Romantics (Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin & Byron) off for an adventure, picking up the dour Charles Babbage along the way. You realize that sailing from Switzerland to London is more geographically challenging than it sounds?Defoe has obviously done lots of research and then discarded most of it in favour of his special brand of silliness, running gags galore and erudite and amusing footnotes. With a few excepts from Byron’s fanzine Young, brooding & doomed and writing lessons from the Pirate captain to Mary Godwin and much much more.Overall – The fifth Pirates! Book. Read it, but read the first four first…