A novel, 1922
Captain Blood
Peter Blood, a physician who has stayed out of Monmouth’s rebellion, is condemned for treason after treating a wounded rebel.
How it begins
Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater.
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About the book
Contents
- Chapter 1: The Messenger
- Chapter 2: Kirke's Dragoons
- Chapter 3: The Lord Chief Justice
- Chapter 4: Human Merchandise
- Chapter 5: Arabella Bishop
- Chapter 6: Plans of Escape
- Chapter 7: Pirates
- Chapter 8: Spaniards
- Chapter 9: The Rebels-Convict
- Chapter 10: Don Diego
- Chapter 11: Filial Piety
- Chapter 12: Don Pedro Sangre
- Chapter 13: Tortuga
- Chapter 14: Levasseur's Heroics
- Chapter 15: The Ransom
- Chapter 16: The Trap
- Chapter 17: The Dupes
- Chapter 18: The Milagrosa
- Chapter 19: The Meeting
- Chapter 20: Thief and Pirate
- Chapter 21: The Service of King James
- Chapter 22: Hostilities
- Chapter 23: Hostages
- Chapter 24: War
- Chapter 25: The Service of King Louis
- Chapter 26: M. De Rivarol
- Chapter 27: Cartagena
- Chapter 28: The Honour of M. De Rivarol
- Chapter 29: The Service of King William
- Chapter 30: The Last Fight of the Arabella
- Chapter 31: His Excellency the Governor
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