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Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen

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    Jules Verne's Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen is an adventure fiction novel. It deals with ship captains, sailors, voyages and travels and enslaved persons.

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    About Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen

    "Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1878. When a whaling expedition goes tragically wrong, fifteen-year-old Dick Sand finds himself commanding a ship with no experienced crew. Through treachery and sabotage, the vessel is secretly diverted to Africa instead of South America, delivering its passengers into the hands of slave traders. Dick must protect Mrs. Weldon and her young son while navigating the brutal realities of the African slave trade in this adventure tale addressing one of history's darkest practices.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

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    • Ship captains
    • Adventure stories
    • Sailors
    • Voyages and travels
    • Enslaved persons
    • Whales
    • Cooks

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    Who wrote Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen?

    Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen was written by Jules Verne.

    What genre is Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen?

    It is usually shelved as Adventure.

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    Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

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