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The quick Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, is convicted of fraud in a issue of a Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and deferential on a Caribbean island of Barbados. After his adventurous shun he becomes a pirate, driven to punish his subjugation and transparent his name.
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The protagonist is a quick Dr. Peter Blood, a illusory Irish medicine who had had a wide-ranging career as a infantryman and soldier (including a elect as a captain underneath a Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to use medicine in a city of Bridgwater in Somerset.
The book opens with him attending to his geranium while a city prepares to quarrel for a Duke of Monmouth. He wants no partial in a rebellion, though while attending to some of a rebels bleeding during a Battle of Sedgemoor, Peter is arrested. During a Bloody Assizes, he is convicted by a barbarous Judge Jeffreys of fraud on a drift that "if any chairman be in tangible rebellion opposite a King, and another person—who unequivocally and indeed was not in rebellion—does intentionally receive, harbour, comfort, or succour him, such a chairman is as many a hypocrite as he who indeed gimlet arms."
The judgment for fraud is genocide by hanging, though King James II, for quite financial reasons, has a judgment for Blood and other convicted rebels commuted to travel to a Caribbean, where they are to be sole into slavery.
Upon attainment on a island of Barbados, he is bought by Colonel Bishop, primarily for work in a Colonel's sugarine plantations though after hired out by Bishop when Blood's skills as a medicine infer higher to those of a internal doctors.
When a Spanish force attacks and raids a city of Bridgetown, Blood escapes with a series of other convict-slaves (including former shipmaster Jeremy Pitt, a one-eyed hulk Edward Wolverstone, former lady Nathaniel Hagthorpe, former Royal Navy sparse officer Nicholas Dyke and former Royal Navy master gunner Ned Ogle), captures a Spaniards' boat and sails divided to turn one of a many successful pirates/buccaneers in a Caribbean, hated and feared by a Spanish.
After a Glorious Revolution, Blood is pardoned, and as a prerogative for saving a cluster of Jamaica from a French ends adult as the governor.
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- Published on: 2012-02-27
- Released on: 2012-02-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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Buy new: $2.99
First tagged "19th century britlit classics" by Janistar K.
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