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The pirates!

Gideon Defoe

2009192 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781299203556
  • 2009Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780753825808
  • 2010Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780297855675
  • 2012Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 196 pages · ENGISBN 9781408824962
  • 2012Bloomsbury · 199 pages · ENGISBN 9781408830000
  • 2012Bloomsbury UKISBN 9781408824979

Scientists: 1837 - the Victorian Era approaches. Worried that his pirates are getting bored with 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 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 and the Elephant Man.

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