Gideon Defoe
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Gideon Defoe is the author of The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, a swashbuckling tale of the true voyage of Charles Darwin, and The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (published in the US as The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab, presumably because it was felt that Americans would be more familiar than the British with Moby Dick), in which the pirates meet with Captain Ahab and help him in the hunt for the legendary white whale in order to pay a debt and impress a girl. A third book, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists, was released in September 2006, and Amazon.co.uk lists a fourth, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon, as being scheduled for release in March 2008.
Defoe claims to have started writing stories about pirates to convince a young lady to leave her boyfriend for him (She didn't).
He is also the co-author, with David Strom, of How Animals Have Sex.
[edit] External links
- [1] Article in the UK Guardian about how The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists came to be published.
- [2] Gideon Defoe's homepage and blog.
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