Rafael Sabatini: Captian Blood His Odyssey

Books in English "The Odyssey of Captain Blood" is an adventure novel that brought worldwide fame to its author, the English writer of Italian origin, Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950). An honest and generous doctor, Peter Blood, was careless enough to help a wounded participant in the uprising during the harsh reign of King James II. For the mercy shown to the rebel, he is exiled to the English colonies in the West Indies, where he is deprived of all rights and becomes a slave. Unwilling to put up with such a fate, Blood joins a group of pirates, and after a short time he himself becomes the terror of the South Seas, the famous Captain Blood - a noble criminal fighting for true justice. A gripping novel of stolen treasure and open-ocean battles, this was first published in 1922 and became an internationally acclaimed classic just a few years later. Unadapted English edition.