Captain Blood Novel |
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Author:
| Sabatini, Rafael |
ISBN: | 978-1-5203-9472-5 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2017 |
Publisher: | Independently Published
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $20.00 |
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Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922.Synopsis : The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset.The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight for...
More DescriptionCaptain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922.Synopsis : The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset.The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight for the Duke of Monmouth. He wants no part in the rebellion, but while attending to some of the rebels wounded at the Battle of Sedgemoor, Peter is arrested. During the Bloody Assizes, he is convicted by the infamous Judge Jeffreys of treason on the grounds that "if any person be in actual rebellion against the King, and another person--who really and actually was not in rebellion--does knowingly receive, harbour, comfort, or succour him, such a person is as much a traitor as he who indeed bore arms."The sentence for treason is death by hanging, but King James II, for purely financial reasons, has the sentence for Blood and other convicted rebels commuted to transportation to the Caribbean, where they are to be sold into slavery. Upon arrival on the island of Barbados, Blood is bought by Colonel Bishop, initially for work in the Colonel's sugar plantations but later hired out by Bishop when Blood's skills as a physician prove superior to those of the local doctors. During his period of slavery, Blood becomes acquainted with and even friendly with Arabella Bishop, Colonel Bishop's niece, who becomes sympathetic after learning his history.When a Spanish force attacks and raids the town of Bridgetown, Blood escapes with a number of other convict-slaves (including former shipmaster Jeremy Pitt, the one-eyed giant Edward Wolverstone, former gentleman Nathaniel Hagthorpe, former Royal Navy petty officer Nicholas Dyke and former Royal Navy master gunner Ned Ogle), captures the Spaniards' ship and sails away to become one of the most successful pirates in the Caribbean, hated and feared by the Spanish...Extrait : But as Pitt's direction was a southward one, bringing them ever nearer to Feversham's headquarters, they werepresently clear of that human flotsam and jetsam of the battle, and riding through the peaceful orchards heavywith the ripening fruit that was soon to make its annual yield of cider.At last they alighted on the kidney stones of the courtyard, and Baynes, the master, of the homestead, grave ofcountenance and flustered of manner, gave them welcome.In the spacious, stone−flagged hall, the doctor found Lord Gildoy a very tall and dark young gentleman,prominent of chin and nose stretched on a cane day−bed under one of the tall mullioned windows, in the care ofMrs. Baynes and her comely daughter. His cheeks were leaden−hued, his eyes closed, and from his blue lips camewith each laboured breath a faint, moaning noise...Author's Biography : Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 - 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers : The Sea Hawk (1915), a tale of an Elizabethan Englishman among the pirates of the Barbary Coast. Rafael Sabatini was born in Iesi, Italy, to an English mother (Anna Trafford) and Italian father. His parents were opera singers who became teachers.At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages, living with his grandfather in England, attending school in Portugal, and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was 17, when he returned to England to live permanently, he had mastered five languages. He quickly added a sixth language - English - to his linguistic collection. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English"...