"Kapteeni Bloodin vaiheet: Seikkailuromaani" by Rafael Sabatini is an adventure novel published in 1922. Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, is wrongly convicted of treason after tending to wounded rebels and sentenced to Caribbean slavery. On Barbados, he's bought by a cruel colonel whose niece takes pity on him. When Spanish raiders attack, Blood seizes his chance to escape, capturing their ship and becoming a legendary pirate—feared by the Spanish but sparing English vessels while his former master hunts him relentlessly. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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