The Pirates! In an Adventure with Sci..., Gideon Defoe
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Sci..., Gideon Defoe
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

Author: Gideon Defoe

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 2 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2012


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Gideon Defoe is the author of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Ahab and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thibault on January 11, 2025

When the Pirate Captain’s rival Black Bellamy says he’s heard of a ship that’s supposed to be full of gold, the Pirate Captain knows that he’s in for the adventure of a lifetime. The name of said ship: the Beagle. This is fun. The Pirate Captain getting tricked into going after Darwin’s ship is just......more

Goodreads review by Vic on October 14, 2024

I was looking for something fluffy and light after the emotional battering of "Never Let Me Go" and Gideon Defoe's "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists" hit the spot. The plot involves pirates, The Beagle, Charles Darwin and Capt. FitzRoy. It also includes the Holy Ghost being smacked over t......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 14, 2015

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists follows the story of the Pirate captain and his unorthodox crew. On their adventures they meet Charles Darwin and his highly trained and sophisticated “man-panzee” Mister Bobo. Darwin has been banished from London by a rival scientist and manages to convi......more

Goodreads review by Kurt on August 27, 2011

The Pirates! is a book for adults (mostly) written in the style of a middle-grade book with footnotes detailing recipes for a good mai-tai and descriptions of pirate shanties about mermaids that put out. There is a little bit of a plot. The remarkable (a talking monkey) is mundane. The mundane (ham)......more

Goodreads review by Margie on October 26, 2011

It is quite funny, and also rather sexist. The flyleaf mentions that Defoe wrote the book to try to win over a woman, who spurned him. A minor strain of bitter sexism runs through the book, which is otherwise a fun romp. I'm disappointed, as it would otherwise be a stellar recommendation. Not for kid......more