Ce livre mythique fut à l'origine d'un film mythique (Errol Flynn dirigé par le flamboyant Michael Curtiz). Un roman où il est grandement question de galions chargés d'or, de flibuste, d'abordages, d'honneur et d'insoumission. Aux côtés de L'Ile au Trésor et de Moonfleet, l'un des chefs-d'œuvre absolus du roman d'aventures inspirées par la Mer.
Physician and country gentleman Peter Blood is forced to turn from medicine to piracy in this swashbuckling classic brimming with stolen treasure, adventure on the high seas, and romance.
This is actually a more faithful adaptation than the 1940 remake with Errol Flynn. A 1924 silent version of Captain Blood, starring J. Warren Kerrigan, is partly lost, surviving only in an incomplete copy in the Library of Congres.
Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely as possible on history....
The Chronicles of Captain Blood' take the much-loved pirate to new adventures with as much excitement as ever before.
Captain clamped a hand over Mr. Ritter's mouth and jammed the snubnosed .38 into his ear . He cocked the pistol's hammer . “ When I take my hand away , you'll give me the answers that I want , or I'll blow your head off .
The story rapidly takes off from this point, as Blood escapes and embarks on a career as a pirate. He raids Spanish treasure ships in the Caribbean while pining for Bishop's pretty niece Arabella.
Story of a physician and gentleman turned pirate. After being wrongfully accused and sentenced to death, Peter Blood escapes his fate and finds himself in the company of buccaneers, eventually becoming the "Robin Hood" of the Spanish seas.
Late one night in 1685, Irish physician Peter Blood is called to treat his friend Lord Gildoy who has been wounded in a rebellion against England's King James II. While he tends to the injuries, the King's men burst into the room and arrest ...
But Blood is a pirate with a sense of honor. How Blood distinguishes himself against his enemies, is the tale in this enjoyable historical adventure.
The Odyssey-like story arc of these tales was then woven by Sabatini into a continuous narrative in novel form, published as Captain Blood: His Odyssey in 1922.