The pirates! in an adventure with Napoleon

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Gideon Defoe: The pirates! in an adventure with Napoleon (2008, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

177 pages

English language

Published Dec. 22, 2008 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

ISBN:
978-0-297-85108-0
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OCLC Number:
191243096

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The Pirate Captain and his merry band of ne'er-do-wells face off against their toughest--but by no means their tallest--challenge yet. Crushed with disappointment at the Pirate of the Year Awards, our Pirate Captain decides that it's time for a career change. And so with his loyal (if soon-to-be-dismayed) crew, he sets off for St. Helena, a bleak speck of an Atlantic island a thousand miles from anywhere. But the Captain's plan for a quiet island life of beekeeping (yes, beekeeping) is interrupted by the arrival of a new "visitor" to the island--the recently deposed Napoleon Bonaparte. Will the island's twenty-eight-mile circumference be big enough to contain two of history's greatest egos? Has the Pirate Captain finally met his match? And, lest we forget the most important question: which of them has the best hat? The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon is a swashbuckling tale of lavish tea parties, planning …

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  • Pirates
  • Fiction