Fifteen-year-old captain. Vern Jules (978-966-674-042-7)

The useful novel by the eminent French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905) talks about Dick Sand, a young man who was the greatest successor in many life experiences.

The crew of the whaling schooner-brig "Pilgrim", commanded by Captain Gul and on board of which Mrs. Weldon, the ship's crew, her five-year-old son Jack, cousin Benedict and her servant suddenly drunkenly drunk from the sinking ship chotirioh blacks, burghers from Pennsylvania. But misfortune arose: Captain Gul died together with the sailors, trying to harpoon the majestic whale. Dick Sand became captain of the Pilgrim, and the secret blacks became his lieutenants. It seems that the worst is already behind us, and through the approaching light of the ship’s cook Negoro, the ship is abandoned on the African coast, on the edge of slave traders and slaves...