The Pirates! in an Adventure With Ahab
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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Pirates submitted by jayin on July 30, 2011, 12:20pm this book is a real winner
awesome submitted by readingking on July 30, 2011, 3:21pm great book
cool submitted by Ele Z. on August 2, 2011, 7:09am love it
COOL submitted by Meganathsaran on August 5, 2011, 2:10pm COOL
Non-stop ridiculousness
submitted by Ilyjtwya on July 13, 2012, 1:49am
Like The Pirates in an adventure with Scientists, the book is filled with with absurdity at every turn. The Pirate Captain is amusing with the combination of his ignorance and the crews continual deferrence to his "wisdom". There are quite a few modern concepts, along with things that definitely did not exist, such as modern Las Vegas or tennis courts on the deck of a pirate ship. I also really enjoyed the explanatory "notes" sprinkled through out the text. They sound legitimate, but in light of the rest of the book I would have to guess that they are only loosely based on facts.
This book is decent humorous reading, although at times the craziness seems to be too much.
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, 2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 152 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0375423850 ;
SUBJECTS
Pirates -- Fiction.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Whaling ships -- Fiction.
Ship captains -- Fiction.
Whaling -- Fiction.
Whales -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Sea stories.