Genre: Pirate Adventure/Pirate Literature As a whole, the narrative concerns how successful a pirate Blood was while also how he fell for a woman and ultimately shaped his pirate career around her. The novel itself focuses on telling his adventures as supposedly written by one of his friends, Jeremy Pitt, the account having been discovered by the author. Blood is a intelligent, attractive, and gentlemanly pirate who fares well in the Caribbean and is offered commissions under not one, but three different kings due to his success as a buccaneer. What is Captain Blood about?Ĭaptain Blood is a pirate adventure novel focused on the core character of Peter Blood, an Irish doctor wrongly accused of treason and sent to Barbados as a slave. With many events in the story taken from the true story of Henry Morgan, Captain Blood describes a soldier turned doctor turned slave turned pirate as during the Golden Age of Piracy a man named Peter Blood is accused of treason. Published first as a serial and then as a novel with continued short stories, Sabatini’s Captain Blood follows the tradition of transatlantic pirate literature in which roguish men wronged by the tyrannical monarchs they live under are forced from their homes and into a life of piracy.
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