Peter Blood, a physician tending geraniums in Bridgewater, is arrested for treating a wounded rebel after the Battle of Sedgemoor, condemned by Judge Jeffreys and shipped to Barbados as a slave. There he meets Arabella Bishop, niece of the planter who buys him, and when Spanish raiders strike the island he seizes his chance and a ship.
Sabatini’s 1922 swashbuckler, later the film that made Errol Flynn a star, is historical adventure at full sail. Download the free EPUB.