Download or read book Dick Sand; Or, A Captain at Fifteen (Esprios Classics) written by Jules Verne and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. 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. 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.