Synopses & Reviews
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 rebelswho were fighting the oppressive King JamesBlood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. He escapes to Tortuga and becomes the leader of a colony of buccaneers.
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"Confident, dramatic sweep, and an unfailing boldness of romantic colour." —London Times
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"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." —Sabatinis' epitaph
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"First-class storytelling." —Library Journal
Synopsis
A classic swashbuckler filled with swordplay and adventure. Peter Blood, a physician and English gentleman, runs afoul of the crown, is enslaved on a Barbados plantation, and escapes to become the leader of a colony of buccaneers.