Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood (eBook, ePUB)

His Odyssey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, had a wide ranging career as a sailor and as a soldier, before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgewater. The town begins to fight for the Duke of Manmouth, and though Peter wants no part in the rebellion, he tends to the wounded soldiers. Because of this he is convicted to treason, and sentenced to death by hanging. King James II, for purely financial reason, decides to sell the criminals as slaves, instead of killing them. After being sold, Blood escapes, steals a Spanish ship, and sails away to become one of the most successful pirates/buccaneers of all time, hated and feared by the Spanish.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781515401926
• Artikelnr.: 50060525

Autorenporträt

Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure. planning for all possibilities but his own illness. Several of Sabatini's novels were adapted into films during the silent era and the first three of these books were made into notable films in the sound era, in 1940, 1952, and 1935 respectively. His third novel was made into a famous "lost" film, Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, and long viewable only in a fragment excerpted in Vidor's silent comedy Show People (1928). In all, Sabatini produced 31 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories and several plays.