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Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
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ISBN10: 1636371876
ISBN13: 9781636371870
Publisher: Bibliotech Pr
Published: Oct 27 2020
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781636371870
Publisher: Bibliotech Pr
Published: Oct 27 2020
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.
Several adaptations were made, two Soviet and one Franco-Spanish.
Themes explored in the novel include:
The painful learning of adult life - the hero, Dick Sand, must assume command of a ship after the death of his captain.
The discovery of entomology
Condemnation of slavery
Revenge (wikipedia.org)
12 different editions
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