An Irish physician, wrongly sold into Caribbean slavery, escapes to become the most feared and gallant of pirates.
Books mentioned in Captain Blood (3)
Odes by Horace: “lounged Peter Blood, a calf-bound, well-thumbed copy of Horace's Odes neglected in his hands”
Epodes by Horace: “He flung after those war-fevered enthusiasts a line of Horace: “Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis?””
The Buccaneers of America by Alexandre Exquemelin: “those of you who have read Esquemeling may be in danger of supposing that Henry Morgan really performed those things”