This is a novel about Captain Blood. While Blood is a fictional character inspired by Thomas Blood, much of the historical background of the novel is based on fact. The story has been adapted for the cinema many times.

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."

Scaramouche, set in the French Revolution, tells the story of a lawyer, Andre-Louis Moreau, who turns into Scaramouche, a rabble-raiser who speaks out against the French government."

Join us for the classic, swashbuckling, historical tale, of the doctor who becomes a pirate, and is known as the "Robin Hood" of the Spanish Seas. Peter Blood escapes from slavery and certain death, seeks treasure, rescues his crew, and saves an English settlement, becoming a hero of land and sea. Based upon the real-life story of Henry Pitman, this is truly the epitome of the adventure novel.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.