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The Frozen Pirate is the story of Paul Rodney, a sailor who narrowly escapes death by shipwreck and exposure in the Straits of Magellan. Surmounting that peril, he faces another: Embedded in the Antarctic ice is an ancient vessel, filled with what seem to be frozen, contorted corpses. But the ship is a pirate ship, and the corpses aren't dead. When one of them revives, Rodney must fend off (and cooperate with, if he hopes to survive) one of the most bloodthirsty and black-hearted scoundrels ever to sail the seven seas!William Clark Russell was a writer of nautical novels, born in New York. He spent eight years at sea as a sailor, gaining the experience he would use in his fiction. After his years at sea, he turned to journalism, and was on the staff of New York's Daily Chronicle before he took to writing novels.

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Written in 1887, The Frozen Pirate is a wonderful adventure novel with some fascinating plot elements worthy of the best science fiction stories, with lots of intrigue and danger, spiced with uncertainty and fear.The protagonist of the story is a pirate who becomes frozen in the ice of the Antarctica for half a century. The story starts slowly, but after a the first few chapters it reaches travelling speed and the readers soon find themselves hooked so much that they are unable to put down the book. The pirate sails his ship into the freezing waters of the Antarctic where fifty years later he is discovered by Paul Rodney, a sailor who only narrowly escapes death himself. Rodney gets shipwrecked in the Magellan Strait, and then comes across a ship with lots of frozen corpses on board. He is shocked to see that one of the corpses is reviving and he is even more shocked to discover that the revived man is actually one of the cruelest pirates who has ever the world’s seas – and this is only the beginning of the adventures.The book alternates episodes with lots of adventures with long and detailed descriptions of the sea and of the ships inspired by the writer’s own experience – Russell spent eight years at sea, working as a sailor, the details about seafaring being all accurate. These descriptions serve not only informative purposes – they are also there to set the general atmosphere of the book and they are so good that you can actually feel the Antarctic cold on your skin while reading. Russell makes the most of the fantastic situation that serves as the starting point of the story, combining improbable events with elements taken from reality. The result is an excellent novel that will serve as great entertainment for readers of any age.

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Title: The Frozen Pirate.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<Source Library> British Library<Contributors> Russell, William Clark; <Original Pub Date> null<Physical Description> 8º.<Shelfmark> 012633.e.9.