Author: FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALD
Title: The Pyrates
Description: London: William Collins, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002227878. Illustrated by A.E. Barbosa jacket art. Some creasing to top edge of dust jacket, short tear top fore edge, some yellowing of pages. Light wear to book. ; A bright, solid book, no price on DJ indicates export edition. ; 1.42 x 8.9 x 6.3 Inches; 413 pages; A rollicking novel about pirates on the high seas. "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.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0002227878 Pirate British Fiction
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Title: The Pyrates
Description: London: William Collins, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002227878. Illustrated by A.E. Barbosa jacket art. Some creasing to top edge of dust jacket, short tear top fore edge, some yellowing of pages. Light wear to book. ; A bright, solid book, no price on DJ indicates export edition. ; 1.42 x 8.9 x 6.3 Inches; 413 pages; A rollicking novel about pirates on the high seas. "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.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0002227878 Pirate British Fiction
Price: US$ 13.50 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 15062
- Book number: 15062
See more books from our catalog: Fiction::Historical