Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century
Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable
debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and
compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival
Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target.
When a pepper monger's loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet
loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a
close encounter of a very different kind.
After escaping with his sanity barely intact and his beard
transformed an alarming bright green, Greybagges rallies "The Ark
de Triomphe" crew for a revenge-fueled adventure to the ends of the
earth and beyond.
Destined to become a cult favorite, this frolicsome tale of
skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, and chicanery upon Ye High Seas is
brimming with hilarious puns, masterful historical allusions, and
nonstop literary hijinks. Including sly references to Thomas
Pynchon, "Treasure Island," 1940s cinema, and notable historical
figures, this melange of delights will captivate readers with its
rollicking adventure, rich descriptions of food and fashion, and
learned asides into scientific, philosophical, and colonial
history.
Richard James Bentley, who happens to look the part of a salty
English sea captain, has trodden many paths and worn many hats.
From his early work as a dealer in dodgy motorcars, he progressed
to being a design engineer on a zeppelin project. Computers then
caught his attention and he authored a number of incomprehensible
technical manuals before turning to fiction. He has lived in
Switzerland and the Netherlands and now spins yarns in the north of
England. "Greenbeard" is his first novel.
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