<p>Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini.<br><br>The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset.<br><br>The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight f...