Dick Sands the Boy Captain
Dick Sands the Boy Captain
When the captain of a Pacific merchant ship vanishes mid-voyage, the crew turns to fifteen-year-old Dick Sands to take command. The boy-captain barely has time to adjust his sextant before the ship is rerouted toward the African coast, where a desperate journey upriver will test every ounce of his courage. Nature attacks: storms shatter the mast, hippos capsize the boat, and the dense jungle seems to swallow travelers whole. But the real danger walks on two legs. A shadow moves through the expedition, one who may have engineered the captain's disappearance for reasons darker than profit. Verne builds this adventure with the precision of a mapmaker and the suspense of a detective story, tracking young Dick as he must grow from boy to leader in the space of a single, catastrophic journey. It is a story about what happens when the adults fail and a child must rise.
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