Captain at fifteen

For the first time published in 1878, the novel of the French writer, the classic of Jules’s fantastic-adventure literature “Fifteen-year-old captain” tells about the adventures of the young Dick Sand, who will be forced to take over the control of the whaling schooner “Pilgrim”, which serves the course to America, and the responsibility for life her crew and passengers. In the open sea and in the mainland depths of equatorial Africa, the heroes of the book have to face many dangers and look into the face of death more than once. The deadly confrontation between the Banditors-Workers, the stay in the village of Sorcerers, the risky meetings with the wild-ears, predatory animals and the rapid waters of the African river-through these and many other trials, will have to go through Dick and its companions before they break out of the ominous debate of the African continent