Dick Sands, the boy captain, tr. [from Un capitaine de quinze ans] by E.E. Frewer

About “Dick Sands, the boy captain, tr. [from Un capitaine de quinze ans] by E.E. Frewer”

After an accident on board a whaling ship, the captain is lost at sea, making the fifteen-year-old apprentice Dick Sands the acting captain. Through traitorous scheming by the ship’s cook and bad weather, the ship is blown from the South Pacific around Cape Horn and onto the west coast of Africa, where Dick continues to lead the survivors through various trials among the slave traders of Angola.