Rafael Sabatini · 1922 · sea

Wrongly condemned for tending a wounded rebel after the Monmouth Rising, the Irish physician Peter Blood is shipped to Barbados as a slave; escaping aboard a captured Spanish raider, he becomes the most feared buccaneer of the Caribbean before a turn of fortune and a change of king make him governor of Jamaica.

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   Bridgewater

   The Somerset town where Blood, treating a rebel wounded at Sedgemoor, is arrested and sentenced to transportation.

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   Barbados

   The plantation island where he is sold to Colonel Bishop, and from which he escapes by seizing a Spanish ship in the harbour.

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   Tortuga

   The buccaneers' haven off Hispaniola, home port for Blood's fleet and its war on the Spanish Main.

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   Maracaibo

   The lake city he storms and where, trapped behind the bar by a Spanish squadron, he contrives his most celebrated escape.

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   Cartagena

   The rich Spanish port, scene of Blood's boldest stroke against the enemies of his adopted trade.

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   Port Royal

   The Jamaican stronghold where, pardoned after the Glorious Revolution, the pirate is made governor at last.