1685: Von heute auf morgen hat das ruhige Leben des Arztes Peter Blood ein Ende. Weil er einen verwundeten Edelmann behandelt, der in den Aufstand gegen König James II. verwickelt ist, wird er als Verräter verurteilt. Man deportiert ihn als Sklave nach Barbados, wo er einem brutalen Plantagenbesitzer zu dienen hat. Der Angriff spanischer Piraten gibt seinem Leben erneut eine dramatische Wendung: Der Arzt wird zum gefürchteten Freibeuter.

Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the greatest Pirate novels ever written as well as a number of wonderful short stories. You'll go in search of adventure with Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, and the Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson. Authors include James Fenimore Cooper, Howard Pyle, Lucretia Parker, Murray Leinster and many others. This is the swashbuckling pirate anthology you've been waiting for. Over 800 pages and more than 300,000 words of pulse pounding pirate adventures await you. Grab your eyepatch and set sail for...

Rafael Sabatini struggled for years as a writer before striking it big with his fabulous historical fiction stories. His breakthrough came with "Scaramouche" in 1921. Immediately following this novel was "Captain Blood." These two books alone sealed Sabatini's success with an audience hungry for adventure tales. Sabatini's fictional endeavors fed an increasing appetite amongst low level industrial workers for stories that placed the little guy against the vested interests (in this case, a wronged man turns pirate and fighting back against upper class nobles and landowners), but the story...

Sir Oliver Tressilian, ein Gentleman aus Cornwall, der fur seine Verdienste gegen die Spanier von Elisabeth I. geadelt wurde, wird buchstablich verraten und verkauft, und findet sich erst als Galeerensklave seiner Katholischen Majestat in Spanien, dann als Befehlshaber der Flotte des Paschas von Algier wieder. Damit hat er Mittel und Wege, seine Ehre wieder herzustellen und die Ubeltater zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen."

Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to be deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess the virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason, announces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence, and thereafter cares for the lad's rearing and education, the most unsophisticated of country folk...

Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal acquaintance with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he was ill-favoured. But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his perceptions are not always normal. He says, for instance, of Anne of Cleves, that she was the "ugliest woman that ever I saw." As far as we can glean from his own voluminous writings it would seem to be extremely doubtful whether he ever saw Anne of Cleves at all, and we suspect him here of being no more than a slavish echo of the common voice, which attributed Cromwell's downfall to the...