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A magnificent romantic saga in which the dauntless Captain Blood leads his men in daring treachery, foils the insidious Lady Court, and rescues the beautiful Doña Isabel from a deadly honeymoon. The swashbuckling tale of pirate-turned-naval commander develops as Blood boards the ship of his attackers in an attempt to commandeer the ship and enlist it in the services of the Royal Navy. Rafael Sabatini was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of a century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international best-seller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. All of his earlier books were rushed into reprints, the most popular of which was The Sea Hawk from 1915. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. While he perhaps didn’t achieve the mammoth success of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, nonetheless Sabatini still maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed. The public knew that in picking up a Sabatini book, they could always count upon a good read, and his following was loyal and extensive
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"An avenging angel, his oppressor's worst nightmare, the modern avatar of the Count of Monte Cristo. In the wake of Sabatini's dashing buccaneer come C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian, but also James Bond and Dick Francis" (Washington Post)
"Captain Blood is a Dick Turpin of the High Seas, a seafaring version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a Caribbean Zorro" (Kate Mosse from the introduction to the Vintage edition of 'Captain Blood')
"Buckles never swashed more dashingly" (John Sutherland Guardian)
"I liked the idea that the hero was also the villain. He was a pirate with a conscience and that idea was to be very strong in my books" (Eoin Colfer)
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"Captain Blood is a Dick Turpin of the High Seas, a seafaring version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a Caribbean Zorro" (Kate Mosse from the introduction to the Vintage edition of 'Captain Blood')
"Buckles never swashed more dashingly" (John Sutherland Guardian)
"I liked the idea that the hero was also the villain. He was a pirate with a conscience and that idea was to be very strong in my books" (Eoin Colfer)
Yet more thrilling adventures of the bold and bolshy Captain Blood
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- PublisherAmereon Ltd
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0891907432
- ISBN 13 9780891907435
- BindingHardcover
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