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Captain Blood | 
 enlarge | Author: Rafael Sabatini
Creator: Travis Scott Greer
Publisher: ePulp Adventures (TM) www.ePulpAdventures.com
Category: EBooks
List Price: $1.00
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 46907
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1st
ASIN: B001EJNQFW
Publication Date: August 19, 2008
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Product Description
NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader.
Captain Blood: His Odyssey is a pirate/adventure novel written by Rafael Sabatini. Taking place in in the 1680's, it concerns the adventures of Irish physician Dr. Peter Blood. Captured and enslaved on an island in the Caribbean, Blood escapes and overcomes his bleak situation by choosing to become a pirate and seek revenge.
The background of this novel is based on several historical facts. The main events being the Monmouth rebellion in 1685 and the Glorious Revolution in 1688. Blood's pirate exploits are based on several real individuals, Henry Morgan and Thomas Blood in particular.
Don't pass up this pulpy action-filled, well-written tale of adventure on the high seas!
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 Mr. June 1, 2008
Lee Smith (Pueblo, Colorado, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent product, with excellent service. Sabatini excels again with this swashbuckling tale of wrongs righted and evil overcome. A good read!!
 Surprisingly bad.... April 18, 2008
Jon Smith (Canada)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was really struck by how bad this book is, not for the writing style, wich is Romantic and enjoyable, but for Captain Blood himself. He is no hero. Weak, self-obsessed and totally inept at leadership. Blood leads his crew into danger based on nothing more than an absurd lust to a boy-faced woman will all the appeal of a stack of bricks. Blood came off as a teenager who had never been kissed. This book was weird...
If I could give it 10 stars, I would March 25, 2008
Jane Austen Fan (Pasadena, California)
Probably one of my favorite stories of all time, the book is far better than the hollywood version! First published in 1922, it was a national sensation and remains so popular it is republished about every 10 years or so.
The action commences in England, with the first failed attempt to wrench tyrannical King James II from the throne. Dr. Peter Blood is caught in the middle because he treats a soldier from the losing side. His death sentence is changed to transportation to the West Indies to be sold as a slave (this type of thing really happened as the Americas were often used as a dump of this sort as was later Australia).
There he meets the beautiful, kind and intelligent Arabella Bishop, the ward of Colonel Bishop, the island governer and as a disgusting a man as Peter Blood is good. Misunderstandings ensue and cannot be corrected when Blood and his compatriots escape and steal away in a ship to become pirates. But Peter and Arabella soon meet again under very different circumstances.
I've lost count of how many times I've read this book and I envy you if this will be your first time.
 Free SF Reader September 3, 2007
Blue Tyson
Captain Blood is a classic pirate romp, entertaining and with plenty of action.
Blood, the main character, helps the wrong guy, and earns the enmity of the authority types. He becomes a slave in the Carribean.
He finds a hot chick, and escape to become the pirate Captain Blood.
This has become one of my favorite books! June 23, 2007
Countryboy (Wishing I were in the country)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great. Rafael Sabatini did really weaved a grand plot. The first chapter is a bit difficult to get through, but after that you are swept along in the ever moving story. You feel the tenseness of the some of the ship battles. You laugh at the wit, charm, and geniusness of Captain Blood in the most impossible odds. Rafael Sabatini knew how to use the english language in a way that keeps you interested. There is also a depthness in the way human emotions are described that sheds light on the human mind.
This is a book I will read again in the future.
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