The Pyrates
The Pyrates is George MacDonald Fraser's tongue-in-cheek homage to the swashbucklers of yore. In these rollicking pages you'll find tall ships and desert islands; impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines; devilishly sinister cads and ghastly dungeons; improbably acrobatic duels and...
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The Pyrates is George MacDonald Fraser's tongue-in-cheek homage to the swashbucklers of yore. In these rollicking pages you'll find tall ships and desert islands; impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines; devilishly sinister cads and ghastly dungeons; improbably acrobatic duels and hair's-breadth escapes; and more plot twists than you can shake a rapier at. A deliriously entertaining combination of high-seas action-adventure and comic hi-jinx.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780006470175 (0006470173)
Publish date: June 2nd 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Dan says, "Since you liked The Princess Bride, you'll probably enjoy this. The blurb on the cover says "The best pirate movie never made!""Now I must find and devour :-)
I thought I'd paste in my Dangerous Dan review for this one. We'll see if it gets the appreciation the one for The Gun Fight got.Dangerous Dan here, back to push you toward stories while he drinks a PBR and pretends to care about things other than women and alcohol.One of Dangerous Dan's favorite m...
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