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Dick Sands, the Boy Captain

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Jules Verne's Dick Sands, the Boy Captain is an adventure fiction novel. It deals with ship captains, sailors, voyages and travels and enslaved persons.

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About Dick Sands, the Boy Captain

"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.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

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

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Who wrote Dick Sands, the Boy Captain?

Dick Sands, the Boy Captain was written by Jules Verne.

What genre is Dick Sands, the Boy Captain?

It is usually shelved as Adventure.

Is Dick Sands, the Boy Captain free to read?

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.

Is there a free audiobook of Dick Sands, the Boy Captain?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 8 h 37 min.

What books are similar to Dick Sands, the Boy Captain?

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