Captain Blood: Captain Blood His Odyssey
- ISBN-10
- 154848119X
- ISBN-13
- 9781548481193
- Series
- Captain Blood
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-06-30
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Authors
- Rafael Sabatini, James Zimmerhoff
Description
The lead is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish doctor who had had a wide-ranging profession as a soldier and sailor (including a function as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before plunging down to practice human medicine in the municipality of Bridgwater in Somerset. The book starts with him attending to his geraniums while the town arms to fight for the Duke of Monmouth. He desires no part in the rebellion, but while tending to some of the rebels injured at the Battle of Sedgemoor, he is imprisoned. During the Bloody Assizes, and convicted by the notorious Judge Jeffreys of treason on the grounds that "if any person be in actual rebellion against the King, and another person-who really and actually was not in rebellion-does knowingly receive, harbour, comfort, or succour him, such a person is as much a traitor as he who indeed bore arms." The punishment for treason is death by hanging, but King James II, for purely financial reasons, has the conviction for Blood and other sentenced rebels commuted to transportation to the Caribbean, where they are to be sold into slavery. On arrival on the island of Barbados, Blood is bought by Colonel Bishop, initially for labor in the Colonel's sugar plantations but later contracted out by Bishop when Blood's skills as a doctor prove superior to those of the local physicians. Through his period of slavery, Blood becomes friendly with Arabella Bishop, Colonel Bishop's niece, who becomes compassionate after learning his history. When a Spanish army attacks and raids the town of Bridgetown, Blood escapes with other convict-slaves, seizes the Spaniards' ship and sails away to become one of the most successful pirates of the Caribbean, despised and feared by the Spanish and English ships. The Colonel Bishop, humiliated by Blood's departure and by Blood himself, dedicates himself to capturing Blood with the goal of hanging him. After the Noble Revolution, Blood is pardoned. As a recompense for saving the possession of Jamaica from a French assault, he is named its governor in replacement of Colonel Bishop, who had deserted his post to hunt for Blood, and the novel ends with the indication that Blood will not only marry Colonel Bishop's niece Arabella but will also allow Bishop off easy.
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