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Dick Sands, The Boy Captain
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Dick Sands an intelligent, ambitious fifteen- year - old American orphan is on board the whaling ship "Pilgrim", headed for San Francisco. This apprentice sailor, is learning hopefully and very quickly how to be a good master of...
a ship some day, he will get the chance .That opportunity will arrive sooner than expected. Captain Hull had to put most of the rebellious ruffians , and murderous crew on shore, in a New Zealand port. The ship is carrying Dick Sands, ultimately the skipper, no one else had any great knowledge of the vessel, five sailors, the owner's wife Mrs. Weldon , her young son Jack , a nurse and cousin Benedict (a bug collector). Also the mysterious and oddly unfriendly Portuguese cook, Negoro who keeps to himself. The captain and his sailors later find five unconscious black men inside the sinking ship "Waldeck"(hit by a steamer, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), it would be a lucky break for Sands , after hearing a barking dog, Dingo. Sadly when Captain Hull is killed, while trying to harpoon a dangerous finback whale, with all the seamen there die, there is no other person but poor Dick to take charge. The Waldeck's survivors become the whaler's new crew, fortune for the people on board the Pilgrim. He sets his course to South America; but the cook through trickery sabotages the binnacle, the ship's compass ( what's this a villainous Portuguese ) . And they land in Africa instead, I must protest Portuguese are great loyal sailors, the Pilgrim is shipwrecked . Just a little off their intended destination. Meeting a man named Harris, a slave trader in league with Negoro who convinces them that this is Bolivia, nobody is perfect ( before that nation lost its coast land, in a war ) on the border of Chile now. He gallantly offers to take them to his brother's hacienda. However they will be sold into slavery ; and a long hard marched to the interior. The caravan numbers more than 800, less will arrive.Their only hope is to escape , down a river in a canoe through cannibal territory and get to a town on the Atlantic. Another page turner for any that like exciting thrills and spills, grand adventure from Jules Verne the master of this type of narrative, not to be taken too seriously by the reader just sit back and feast in his imagination I did and so will you.
a ship some day, he will get the chance .That opportunity will arrive sooner than expected. Captain Hull had to put most of the rebellious ruffians , and murderous crew on shore, in a New Zealand port. The ship is carrying Dick Sands, ultimately the skipper, no one else had any great knowledge of the vessel, five sailors, the owner's wife Mrs. Weldon , her young son Jack , a nurse and cousin Benedict (a bug collector). Also the mysterious and oddly unfriendly Portuguese cook, Negoro who keeps to himself. The captain and his sailors later find five unconscious black men inside the sinking ship "Waldeck"(hit by a steamer, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), it would be a lucky break for Sands , after hearing a barking dog, Dingo. Sadly when Captain Hull is killed, while trying to harpoon a dangerous finback whale, with all the seamen there die, there is no other person but poor Dick to take charge. The Waldeck's survivors become the whaler's new crew, fortune for the people on board the Pilgrim. He sets his course to South America; but the cook through trickery sabotages the binnacle, the ship's compass ( what's this a villainous Portuguese ) . And they land in Africa instead, I must protest Portuguese are great loyal sailors, the Pilgrim is shipwrecked . Just a little off their intended destination. Meeting a man named Harris, a slave trader in league with Negoro who convinces them that this is Bolivia, nobody is perfect ( before that nation lost its coast land, in a war ) on the border of Chile now. He gallantly offers to take them to his brother's hacienda. However they will be sold into slavery ; and a long hard marched to the interior. The caravan numbers more than 800, less will arrive.Their only hope is to escape , down a river in a canoe through cannibal territory and get to a town on the Atlantic. Another page turner for any that like exciting thrills and spills, grand adventure from Jules Verne the master of this type of narrative, not to be taken too seriously by the reader just sit back and feast in his imagination I did and so will you.
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Feb 20, 2022 04:14PM
A joy to read.
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When I first started reading your review I was thinking it was nonfiction. It didn't take long for me to begin to question that assumption. Then I noticed it was written by Jules Verne.
Yes Jules Verne wrote entertaining books and was a sailor who owned several boats.
