A classic swashbuckling adventure on the high seas Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England
Captain Blood
โ Scribed by Rafael Sabatini
- Publisher
- Unionsverlag
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 571 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 3293306489
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โฆ Synopsis
1685: Von heute auf morgen hat das ruhige Leben des Arztes Peter Blood ein Ende. Weil er einen verwundeten Edelmann behandelt, der in den Aufstand gegen Kรถnig James II. verwickelt ist, wird er als Verrรคter verurteilt. Man deportiert ihn als Sklaven nach Barbados, wo er einem brutalen Plantagenbesitzer zu dienen hat. Der Angriff spanischer Piraten gibt seinem Leben erneut eine dramatische Wendung: Der Arzt wird zum gefรผrchteten Freibeuter. Einer der groรen Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts, der als Vorlage fรผr den erfolgreichen Hollywoodfilm Unter Piratenflagge mit Errol Flynn diente.
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