The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
Author(s): Gideon Defoe
The sequel to The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientist, now a major motion picture.
I've been thinking of an adventure more along the lines of pearl-smuggling in the South Seas or discovering a lost continent. We're being sponsored, you see, so it's got to be full of glamorous locations and scantily clad women.
He's conquered the seven seas, hunted Moby Dick and rescued Charles Darwin; now the Pirate Captain and his crew are off on another adventure. Their mission this time: to sail to London, buy a new suit for the Pirate Captain and maybe have some sort of adventure in a barnyard.
But nothing is ever straight forward for the hapless pirates. In no time at all, the Pirate Captain is incarcerated at Scotland Yard in a case of mistaken identity. Discovering that his doppelganger is none other than Karl Marx, the Captain and his crew are unwittingly caught up in a sinister plot involving communists, enormous beards, and a quest to discover whether ham might really be the opium of the people.
Product Information
The film of The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists, made by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures, will be released in the UK on 28th March 2012. The film features the voice of Hugh Grant (as Pirate Captain), Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman and, of course, Brian Blessed The first Aardman film since Flushed Away, The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists is one of Sony's top 5 films for 2012 and will have a huge consumer marketing campaign beginning in February, including partnership deals with MacDonalds and Birds Eye
'A grown-up comedy disguised as a kids' book, the third in Defoe's Pirates! trilogy is culty and very funny. Think Captain Pugwash for a generation that should know better - but doesn't' Arena 'Gideon Defoe definitively puts the "Ho ho!" - and, indeed, the "Yo!" - into pirating' Caitlin Moran 'Funny and entertaining' Independent 'A timber-shivering adventure that speaks to the pirate in all of us' Ben Schott
Gideon Defoe was born in 1975 and lives in London. He is also the author of The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists, The Pirates! In An Adventure with Whaling,and The Pirates! In An Adventure with Napoleon. You could be forgiven for thinking he is a bit of a one-trick pony.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 30 November 2011
- : 178mm X 111mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gideon Defoe
- : Paperback
- : 823.92
- : 256
- : Illustrations