Captain Blood is the much-loved story of a physician and gentleman turned pirate. Peter Blood, wrongfully accused and sentenced to death, narrowly escapes his fate and finds himself in the company of buccaneers. Embarking on his new life with remarkable skill and bravery, Blood becomes the 'Robin Hood' of the Spanish seas. This is swashbuckling adventure at its best.

Product Description Eighteen years ago, Sir Crispin Galliard, the Tavern Knight in service of King Charles, was another man -- a man with another name, a man who had a life, a future, and a heritage -- including hereditary lands and titles that would come to him in time. Eighteen years ago, two foul neighbors -- Cromwell? About the Author Rafael Sabatini was born to an English mother and Italian father, both well-known opera singers. At seventeen Sabatini moved to England, where, after a brief stint in the business world, he started to write. His major breakthrough came with Scaramouche, which became an international bestseller and was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood. All his earlier books were then rushed into reprint. Many of his novels were subsequently adapted into classic films which appealed to both a male and female market with their drama, romance and action, set against a variety of historical settings. 'One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords and jewels' - Daily Telegraph

Further adventures from the much–loved Captain Blood, the 'Robin Hood' of the Spanish Seas. In his latest exploits, The Chronicles of Captain Blood takes him to new adventures with as much excitement and swashbuckling adventure as ever before. Winning invaluable treasures, rescuing his crew from almost certain death and saving an English settlement are all in a day's work for this remarkable hero of land and sea.

Captain Blood, the remarkable physician turned pirate returns for more thrilling adventures at sea. Time and again, he falls headlong into deep peril, each time emerging victorious. Yet when everything is stacked against him, can he keep his honour until the bitter end?

Being an Account of the Strange Wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol; Marquis of Bardelys, and of the things that in the course of it befell him in Languedoc, in the year of the Rebellion

Esta novela se desarrolla en la la Francia de los Borbones., André-Louis Moreau, un abogado ve como su amigo el seminarista Phillippe de Vilmorin, muere a consecuencia de un duelo injusto con el mejor espadachín de Francia, el Marques de LaTour d´Azyr, y Moreau se enrola con grupos revolucionarios. Su tio, que es su tutor, se siente dececionado..Monroe se esconderá en una compañía de cómicos haciendo el papel de Arlequin y descubrirá sus aptitudes para la escena. Se hará muy famoso para ejecutar su venganza contra su enemigo LaTour D´Azyr. Durante la novela se palpa el ambiente y los tumultos de la pre revolución francesa y el autor te hace sentirte dentro del protagonista, viviendo cada aventura y pensamiento.

El siempre quiso saber quien fueron sus padres, y al final de la novela, se descubre el secreto…

La novela fue publicada en 1921 y constituye el mayor éxito de su autor, gracias al cual los lectores de la época recuperaron el gusto por la novela de aventuras de corte clásico., fue adaptada al cine en 1952.