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Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood. With battles on sea and on land, daring escapes, sword duels to the death, a touch of romance, and a magnificent score by Jeffrey Gage, Captain Blood is a swashbuckling adventure on a very grand scale!

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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini is a thrilling tale of courage, wit, and redemption set in the golden age of piracy. Dr. Peter Blood, a skilled and honorable physician, is wrongfully convicted of treason and sold into slavery in the Caribbean. Stripped of his freedom, he refuses to accept defeat. With his brilliant mind and unwavering spirit, Blood leads a daring escape, seizes a Spanish ship, and transforms into the notorious pirate Captain Blood.Sailing across the high seas aboard The Arabella, he becomes both feared and admired, a swashbuckling hero who fights against injustice while ...

Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on the Caribbean island of Barbados. He escapes and becomes a pirate. [Wikipedia]Captain Blood was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated swashbuckling film that rocketed Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland to stardom in Hollywood. The fast-paced historical fiction of Rafael Sabatini is often compared with that of Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre ...