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 and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all.

Edited with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	December 31, 2002
ISBN13	9780142180105
Publishers	Penguin Classics
Pages	368
Dimensions	130 × 197 × 20 mm · 294 g
Language	English
Contributor	Gary Hoppenstand

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