The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! passenger Charles Darwin. Darwin recognises the crew's pet Polly as the last living dodo, and recommends they enter it in the Scientist of the Year competition at the Royal Society of London for a valuable prize. Secretly, Darwin plans on stealing Polly himself with the help of his trained chimpanzee, Mr. Bobo, as to impress his love interest Queen Victoria. The pirates disguise themselves as scientists to enter the competition, and the dodo display wins the top prize, which turns out to be minuscule trinkets and a meeting with the Queen. The Pirate Captain hides Polly before the meeting. There,
An Awfully Big Adventure (novel) of Liverpool, joins the company and gets entangled in the backstage intrigue. The title is an ironic reference to the original Peter Pan story, in which Peter says "To die will be an awfully big adventure." In 1995, Fine Line Features released a motion picture adaptation starring Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant and then-unknown actress Georgina Cates in the central role. The film was directed by Mike Newell and is one of the only film versions of Bainbridge's works. An Awfully Big Adventure (novel) An Awfully Big Adventure is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge. It was short listed for the