Name: Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen (en Inglés)
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Author: Verne, Jules
ISBN: 9781458341013

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Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jules Verne

Editorial

Lulu.com

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

290

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21x14.8x1.7 cm

Peso

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781458341013

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Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen (en Inglés)

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Dick Sand A Captain at FifteenJules Verne1878 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.The painful learning of adult life - the hero, Dick Sand, must assume command of a ship after the death of his captain.Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy that serves on the schooner Pilgrim, a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets. However, this time the hunting season has been unsuccessful, and as they plan to return home three people request passage to Valparaiso: Mrs Weldon, the wife of the hunting firm's owner, her five-year-old son Jack, his old nanny Nan and her cousin Bénédict, an entomologist. With not much of a choice, the captain accepts.Several days into their journey north-east, the Pilgrim encounters a shipwreck, with only five African-American survivors (Tom, Actéon, Austin, Bat and Hercule) plus a dog (Dingo), all of whom are brought into the ship and offered passage to America.It is as they get closer east that they encounter a whale, and the captain and crew decide to hunt it, in an attempt to make some profit off the season. Captain Hull reluctantly leaves Dick responsible for the ship in his absence while the rest of the crew approaches the whale on a smaller boat. However, the whale, while defending itself, destroys the boat and kills the crew, leaving Dick in charge of a ship with no experienced sailors to help him: only the shipwreck survivors are well enough to help him.However, the ship's cook, Negoro, has sinister plans for the ship: after breaking one of the ship's compasses and leaving them without a measuring device, he places a magnet on the other compass to trick the inexperienced crew into changing their route. In spite of the longer than expected travel, the group perseveres, and finally makes land, although the Pilgrim is lost. Negoro escapes with Mrs Weldon's money.A man called Harris meets the group and assures them they are in the Bolivian coast, encouraging them to follow him into the jungle, saying he can lead them to a nearby city. Dick begins to suspect that they are being lied to as they encounter several animals Harris insists are native, but do not seem to be like any he knows.

Jules Verne

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Jules Gabriel Verne, (Nantes, 8 de febrero de 1828-Amiens, 24 de marzo de 1905), destacado escritor francés y pionero de la literatura de aventuras y ciencia ficción, es reconocido por sus novelas visionarias, donde combinó el rigor científico con una narrativa emocionante. Obras como Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino, Viaje al centro de la Tierra y La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días no solo entretienen, sino que anticiparon avances tecnológicos con asombrosa precisión.

Miembro de la Legión de Honor y uno de los autores más traducidos de la historia, Verne influyó en generaciones de lectores, científicos y escritores. Sus historias, meticulosamente documentadas, siguen siendo un referente de la literatura universal, ideal para quienes buscan clásicos llenos de imaginación, aventura y conocimiento.

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