Captain Blood
Peter Blood, an Irish
physician and former soldier is happily settled, in the 1680's, as the
doctor in an English town, when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth
catches him by accident. He saves a man's life, as a doctor must try to
do, but the man is a rebel and the hanging Judge Jeffreys sentences him
to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies.
Once
there, his knowledge as a physician is recognized, and thus he meets and
falls in love with the daughter of the man who own his servitude; not
likely to be a successful love story A Spanish ship attacks the town,
and while the Spaniards celebrate their victory he boldly steals their
ship, and he and his fellow convicts sail off to become the boldest and
most fearless of pirates among the islands and on the Spanish Main. But
all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he loves
cannot love a "thief and pirate." Even when he destroys England's
enemies, even at his most triumphant...but wait Is that... The classic
novel of adventure and romance, and one of Sabatini's best.
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