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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
bookshelves: pirates-smugglers-wreckers, philosophy, zoology, seven-seas, winter-20112012
Read from January 02 to 03, 2012
Dedication - To Sophie, who has a quarter of a million pounds
Opening - 'The best bit about being a pirate,' said the pirate with gout, 'is the looting.'
There be footnotes and a map - what more do you need to add to a humourous script about Darwin and pirates and Mr Bobo
Funniest moment - page 82. Luckily they were not having their climactic fight in the Prague Natural History Museum which is full of trilobites and not much else
*nods*
4* for me - others (not needing a humorous palate cleanser) will have to be guided by a 3*
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