Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Jules Verne

"Dick Sands, the Boy Captain" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1878. When a whaling expedition goes tragically wrong, fifteen-year-old Dick Sand must command a ship with no experienced crew. Through the treachery of the ship's cook, the vessel is secretly diverted to Africa instead of South America, where Dick and his passengers—including a woman, her young son, and several African survivors—find themselves trapped in the brutal world of the slave trade. A tale of courage, deception, and survival unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Translator Frewer, Ellen E. (Ellen Elizabeth), 1848-1940
Uniform Title Un capitaine de quinze ans. English
Title Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Sand,_A_Captain_at_Fifteen
Credits Distributed Proofreaders
Reading Level Reading ease score: 65.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Ship captains -- Fiction
Subject Adventure stories
Subject Sailors -- Fiction
Subject Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Subject Enslaved persons -- Fiction
Subject Whales -- Fiction
Subject Cooks -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 9150
Release Date
Last Update Oct 8, 2023
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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