Captain Blood (Sabatini - Penguin ed.)

Author: Rafael Sabatini

ISBN: 9780142180105

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions.