{"product_id":"the-curse-of-the-golden-hinde-kidnapped-by-18th-century-pirates-how-would-you-survive-9781505367768","title":"The Curse of the Golden Hinde: Kidnapped by 18th Century Pirates, how would you survive?","description":"A cannonball smashes through the church tower of a sleepy village...spies from a piratical underworld steal into the British Library for a 200 year old map. England's last living pirate, Captain Jericho, recruits schoolboy Wilf Pinnington to enter the \"Netherworld\" as his apprentice cabin boy on The Devil's Advocate. In the race to prevent the cursed statue of The Golden Hinde falling into the hands of the loathsome Captain Vane, Wilf faces tests of courage that would destroy grown men. Among the heroes, villains and madmen he meets, there's Mundi - the Gandhi-like Master Navigator, the Phoenix Sisters - as beautiful as they are deadly and whose swordplay has no equal, Bose - First Mate and honest as the yardarm's long, crazed Gambrinus - a Professor of Explosions and the satanic Captain Vane - who reinvents the nature of evil. The Curse of the Golden Hinde is a modern day Treasure Island, packed with action, suspense, daring and surreal humour. It's a tale written for any boy or girl who has felt the sea breeze ruffle their hair and wondered what adventure lies over the horizon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Fiddes lives in London, England with his Spanish wife Maribel and two very mobile sons who love football. He set up the Ideamotel in Soho where he works as a creative director and has won a number of international awards for poetry. His fascination with pirates started as a boy when an Uncle gave him a real dubloon which was said to have come from The Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779415376146,"sku":"9781505367768","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef150a63-a4ec-4eee-b87e-684b9b03ce41.jpg?v=1765369950","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-curse-of-the-golden-hinde-kidnapped-by-18th-century-pirates-how-would-you-survive-9781505367768","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}