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Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Globe Pequot Press

Published:1st Mar '98

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Peter Blood, a physician and an English gentleman becomes a pirate after suffering a grave injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels—who were fighting the oppressive King James—Blood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. He escapes to Tortuga and becomes the leader of a colony of buccaneers.

"Confident, dramatic sweep, and an unfailing boldness of romantic colour." -- London Times
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." --Sabatinis' epitaph
"First-class storytelling." -- Library Journal

ISBN: 9780935526455

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm

Weight: 386g

286 pages