Captain Blood (1922) - Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini

Category: Adventure

Narrator: Simon Vance

Tags: Adventure, Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults

Captain Blood Series, Book 1 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Original release: 1999 Blackstone Audiobooks; Release date: November 9, 2004 Duration: 10:49:39, In 1685, Irish physician Peter Blood is happily settled in a small English town when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth interrupts. After saving the life of a wounded nobleman who turns out to be a rebel, Blood is charged with treason and sentenced to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies., On the islands, Blood is recognized for his knowledge as a physician, and thus he develops a romance with a young lady. But their attachment is ill-fated, as her father is the owner of Bloods servitude. When Spaniards attack the colony, Blood and his fellow convicts take advantage of their victory celebration to steal their ship, sailing off to become the boldest and most fearless pirates on the Spanish Main., George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman novels, praises this hearty saga as one of the great unrecogniz