A high-seas swashbuckling romp in classic George Macdonald Fraser style
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.
- ISBN10 0394538374
- ISBN13 9780394538372
- Publish Date 12 July 1984 (first published 17 November 1983)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 8 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 405
- Language English