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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About this eBook
| Author | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 |
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| 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 | Oct 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 8, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1012 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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