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ISBN
9781533164292
Book Title
Dick Sand, a Captain at Fifteen (1878) Novel by Jules Verne (Original Version) : Illustrated
Publisher
CreateSpace
Item Length
10 in
Publication Year
2016
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
Jules Vern
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
Item Width
8 in
Number of Pages
220 Pages

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Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (French: Un capitaine de quinze ans) is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular.Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner "Pilgrim" as a sailor. The crew are whale hunters that voyage every year down to New Zealand. After an unsuccessful season of hunting, as they plan to return the wife of the owner of the hunting firm, Mrs Weldon, her five-year-old son Jack Weldon and her cousin, Bénédict, an entomologist ask for a return passage to San Francisco. Several days into the journey they save five shipwrecked passengers from another ship and a dog who was with them at the time (Tom, Actéon, Austin, Bat, Nan, Hercule and Dingo (the dog)). Towards the end of their passage, they notice a whale and the crew, hoping for some profit after a bad season, decide to hunt it. Captain Hull reluctantly leaves Dick responsible for the ship. But the hunt goes awry and all the crew members are killed. Now Dick is left in charge of the ship with no experienced sailors to help him. He tries to teach the five survivors of the shipwreck and tries to reach the coast of South America, but Negoro, the ship's cook manages to trick them, breaking one of their compasses and their speed measuring device and eventually, after making sure the rest were lost, leads them to equatorial Africa.Jules Gabriel Verne ( 8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

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ISBN-10
1533164290
ISBN-13
9781533164292
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Book Title
Dick Sand, a Captain at Fifteen (1878) Novel by Jules Verne (Original Version) : Illustrated
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jules Vern
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.5 in
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
8 in

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