
Category: Adults, Adventure, Classic
Language: EnglishKeywords: Barbados Captain Blood dranatization Pirates sea battles Slavery
Written by Rafael Sabatini
Read by Jerry Robbins and The Colonial Radio Players
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Dramatization
Captain Blood () - Rafael Sabatini
Jerry Robbins and The Colonial Radio Players – 7hrs
Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood. With battles on sea and on land, daring escapes, sword duels to the death, a touch of romance, and a magnificent score by Jeffrey Gage, Captain Blood is a swashbuckling adventure on a very grand scale!
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Note about the author–Rafael Sabatini was one of the most popular authors of the first half of the 20th Century. Although he wrote many types of books, he and fellow writers, Lawrence Schoonover & Samuel Shellabarger to name two, were known for books of adventure to far off places and times past filled with not only pirates, sea battles, duels but political intrigue, exotic lands & conquests. Many of these books like Captain Blood became motion pictures that are still viewed today.
These authors liked historical accuracy, although Captain Blood is a fictional character his story is based on a real person and real incidents.
Uploaded – 8/30/14
Captain Blood () - Rafael Sabatini
Jerry Robbins and The Colonial Radio Players – 7hrs
Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood. With battles on sea and on land, daring escapes, sword duels to the death, a touch of romance, and a magnificent score by Jeffrey Gage, Captain Blood is a swashbuckling adventure on a very grand scale!
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Note about the author–Rafael Sabatini was one of the most popular authors of the first half of the 20th Century. Although he wrote many types of books, he and fellow writers, Lawrence Schoonover & Samuel Shellabarger to name two, were known for books of adventure to far off places and times past filled with not only pirates, sea battles, duels but political intrigue, exotic lands & conquests. Many of these books like Captain Blood became motion pictures that are still viewed today.
These authors liked historical accuracy, although Captain Blood is a fictional character his story is based on a real person and real incidents.
Uploaded – 8/30/14