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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.

Who reads The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists?

Author

Defoe, Gideon

Publisher

Côte d’Azur

Published

2003

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.88 / 5 (2,940 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14