Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Sand,_A_Captain_at_Fifteen

Release date is 2005-10-01

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"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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