Captain Blood
"Confident, dramatic sweep, and an unfailing boldness of romantic colour." -- London Times
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 rebels—who were fighting the oppressive King James—Blood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. Les mer
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 rebels—who were fighting the oppressive King James—Blood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. He escapes to Tortuga and becomes the leader of a colony of buccaneers.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- McBooks Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780935526455
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
"Confident, dramatic sweep, and an unfailing boldness of romantic colour." -- London Times
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." --Sabatinis' epitaph
"First-class storytelling." -- Library Journal