Peter Blood, after years of adventuring as a soldier, has now decided to retire and be a physician in the English countryside. He is confronted with injustice of the most terrible kind: slavery. For Peter Blood, scholar and doctor, the quest for justice is not an idle or abstract discussion. Sabatini based the first part of the story of Blood on Henry Pitman, a surgeon who tended the wounded Monmouth rebels and was sentenced to death by Judge Jeffreys. Although Blood is a fictional character, much of the historical background of the novel is based on facts. Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely as possible on history. Captain Blood was originally published in 1922. In all, he produced thirty-one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. Sabatini's writing, usually functioning in a historic setting, explores political intrigue, religion, and the place of chivalry and honour, while entertaining with clever dialogue, deftly drawn characters and action sequences as vivid and thrilling as modern movies. When talking about Rafael Sabatini, most people think of high adventure, sword-fighting and damsels in distress.
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