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April 09, 2007
"The Pirates" by Gideon Defoe
If you are only interested in serious literature, you will want to skip right over this blog entry. Gideon Defoe’s pirate stories, two bound in the same book, “The Pirates: In an Adventure with Scientists,” and “The Pirates: In an Adventure with Ahab” are just pure, silly fun. These stories recount two of the many adventures of the Pirate Captain and his crew. (Since the Pirate Captain has trouble remembering names, the crew go by descriptions and include such fine men as his second-in-command the scarf-wearing-pirate, the pirate with gout, the pirate in red, the pirate with the nut allergy – well you get the picture). In the first story, the pirates meet up with Charles Darwin and the in the second they go hunting the great white whale for Ahab. In both they sing a lot of shanties and discuss how much they love ham. These are wonderfully silly stories with great footnotes.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7750-2
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Posted by jnardine at April 9, 2007 09:48 AM