Peter Blood, an Irish physician and former soldier is happily settled, in the 1680's, as the doctor in an English town, when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth catches him by accident. He saves a man's life, as a doctor must try to do, but the man is a rebel and the hanging Judge Jeffreys sentences him to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies. Once there, his knowledge as a physician is recognized, and thus he meets and falls in love with the daughter of the man who own his servitude; not likely to be a successful love story A Spanish ship attacks the town, and while...

Peter Blood, an Irish physician and former soldier is happily settled, in the 1680's, as the doctor in an English town, when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth catches him by accident. He saves a man's life, as a doctor must try to do, but the man is a rebel and the hanging Judge Jeffreys sentences him to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies. Once there, his knowledge as a physician is recognized, and thus he meets and falls in love with the daughter of the man who own his servitude; not likely to be a successful love story A Spanish ship attacks the town, and while...

Peter Blood, an Irish physician and former soldier is happily settled, in the 1680's, as the doctor in an English town, when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth catches him by accident. He saves a man's life, as a doctor must try to do, but the man is a rebel and the hanging Judge Jeffreys sentences him to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies. Once there, his knowledge as a physician is recognized, and thus he meets and falls in love with the daughter of the man who own his servitude; not likely to be a successful love story A Spanish ship attacks the town, and while...

Peter Blood, an Irish physician and former soldier is happily settled, in the 1680's, as the doctor in an English town, when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth catches him by accident. He saves a man's life, as a doctor must try to do, but the man is a rebel and the hanging Judge Jeffreys sentences him to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies. Once there, his knowledge as a physician is recognized, and thus he meets and falls in love with the daughter of the man who own his servitude; not likely to be a successful love story A Spanish ship attacks the town, and while...

is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set over the years 1588-1593 and concerns a retired Cornish seafaring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother. After being forced to serve as a slave on a galley, Sir Oliver is liberated byBarbary pirates. He joins the pirates, gaining the name "Sakr-el-Bahr" (the hawk of the sea), and swears vengeance against his brother.

At the end of 1788, all of France was paid for the land revolution, but only a few men could scatter the seed able to make it sprout. One of them, Philippe de Vilmorin, young seminarian educated in the new ideals, is killed in unequal duel for the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr for denouncing the despotism of the privileged classes and possessing the dangerous gift of eloquence. Before the lifeless body of his friend, Andre-Louis Moreau, pragmatic lawyer and not given to the angry defense of any idea swears spread throughout the country the voice that the aristocrat wanted silence with death....

El gran clasico de las novelas de aventuras nauticas. La vida del capitan Blood, inspirada directamente en la biografia de Henry Morgan, es un continuo proceso de busqueda de la libertad, manteniendose fiel a unos principios de igualdad, en una epoca en la que la pirateria estaba legitimada y era tolerada por los gobiernos europeos. Elegido almirante por los bucaneros, Blood emprende una expedicion contra Puerto Principe y Porto Bello, pero la mas espectacular es su entrada en Panama, la llamada Taza de Oro, de la que se retira con un cuantioso botin. Nombrado gobernador de Jamaica, no tarda...