Captain Blood was adapted for the screen in 1935. Of course he escapes, and becomes a savvy pirate! While Captain Blood is fictional, he was inspired by the real-life John Coad, who was involved in and convicted for the Monmouth revolution, transported, and eventually found his way home (I read about him in Condemned by Graham Seal). The sentence however, is not hanging but transportation and Peter finds himself a slave in the West Indies. Peter ends up connected with the Monmouth Rebellion when he attends to some wounded, and is sentenced by the famous Judge Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Many of his books became bestsellers.Ĭaptain Blood, first published in 1922 (which makes it 100 this year), tells the story of fictional Irish physician Peter Blood, who has a career as a soldier and sailor. Quite prolific, he wrote 34 novels, short-story collections, non fiction, as well as several uncollected short stories. Born in Italy in 1875, Sabatini was the writer of swashbuckling and seafaring historical fiction. The book is Captain Blood, the first in a trilogy of the same name by Rafael Sabatini. Today’s pick is a classic which has been on my ebook pile for a fairly long time, well over 5 years I think.
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