Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatini
Peter Blood, a doctor and English gentleman, turned out to be a pirate from an ordinary sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after being arrested for treating wounded rebels, Kan is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. When he escapes, no ship passing through the Spanish Main is immune to Blood and his men. This classic adventure is alive with color, romance, and excitement, and makes trouble-free comments on the social injustice of slavery, the dangers of intolerance, the power of love, the role of fate, and the ways in which oppression can lead good people to hopeless measures.
