Physical description

Hard cover book, Dick Sands The Boy Captain.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington, Crown Buildings 188 Fleet Street, London. W1.
Date: 1882
Light green hardcover with the spine having lettering to spine in black hand written text pen.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

No label on the spine library reference written in black with text pen PAT 843 VER
There is no other sticker or label other than title and library reference hand written in black texter pen.

Summary

Dick Sands, the Boy Captain is a Jules Verne adventure novel about a teenage sailor who ends up commanding a ship after the captain and most of the crew are lost. The story follows his fight to protect the passengers and survive a dangerous diversion into Africa, where slavery is a central threat.
It was first published in 1878 in French, under the title (“Un capitaine de quinze ans”) “A Captain at Fifteen”.
The book begins with a whaling voyage that goes wrong, leaving the young Dick Sands as the only capable person to take charge. The ship is then secretly steered off course, and the plot turns into a survival and rescue story involving deception, moral courage, and the slave trade in Africa. In short, it is one of Verne’s more serious adventure novels, with a strong anti-slavery element.