The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists is the first book in The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe dealing with a hapless crew of pirates. It was published in 2004 by Orion Books (). The book was adapted into a stop-motion film by Aardman Animations. The book is set in 1837, and follows the adventures of "The Pirate Captain" and his crew of unorthodox pirates. They meet a young Charles Darwin and Mister Bobo, a highly trained and sophisticated "man-panzee", who have been exiled from London by a rival scientist. Having sunk the
Quite an Adventure his Savoy operas with curtain raisers such as "Quite an Adventure". W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers: "Quite an Adventure" was first produced on tour in the English provinces by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a curtain raiser for "H.M.S. Pinafore". The London premiere was at the Olympic Theatre on 7 September 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn, as a companion piece for Solomon's operetta "Claude Duval." It ran until the end of October 1881. D'Oyly Carte again toured the piece in tandem with "Patience" in 1881, and with "Pinafore" and "The Pirates of Penzance" in