# Captain Blood

**Author:** Rafael Sabatini
**Tags:** Adventure stories, Sea stories, British, Historical fiction, Physicians, Pirates, Caribbean Area
**Price:** Free
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
**URL:** https://samolit.com/books/96609

## Description

Once a respected physician, Peter Blood finds his life irrevocably altered when he is wrongly implicated in the Monmouth Rebellion and condemned to slavery in the treacherous West Indies. Despite his cynical view of politics, his humanitarian act of tending to a wounded rebel brands him a traitor, leading to a cruel sentence and transportation to Barbados. There, under the brutal thumb of Colonel Bishop, Blood’s medical skills earn him a precarious existence, and he encounters the spirited Arabella, Bishop’s niece.

A dramatic Spanish raid on the island provides Blood and his fellow convicts with an unexpected chance at freedom. Seizing a Spanish galleon, he escapes his chains and, driven by a thirst for justice and liberty, transforms into the notorious and chivalrous Captain Blood, master of the high seas. Navigating the perilous waters of the Caribbean, he leads a band of buccaneers in daring escapades, clashing with tyrannical officials and rival pirates. But even amidst swashbuckling adventure and the pursuit of revenge, Blood remains a man of honor, yearning for redemption and a return to the life he lost, and perhaps, the love he found.