The Pyrates: A Swashbuckling Comic Novel by the Creator of Flashman

by George Mac Donald Fraser (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $16.86

  A send-up of pirate lore and legend packs many stories and cliches about privateers into a single novel.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $21.21

  A high-seas swashbuckling romp in classic George Macdonald Fraser style

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $13.33

  Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of 'The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, 'The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel. The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime - tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines, buried treasure and Black Spots, devilish Dons and ghastly dungeons, plots, duels, escapes, savage rituals, tender romance and steaming passion, all to the accompaniment of ringing steel, thunderous broadsides, sweeping film music, and the sound of cursing extras falling in the water and exchanging period dialogue. Even Hollywood buccaneers were never like this.