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Encyclopedia > Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen

Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (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. This article is about the French author. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


Themes

Themes explored in the novel include:

  • The painful learning of adult life - the hero, Dick Sand, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain.
  • The discovery of entomology
  • Condemnation of slavery
  • Revenge

Liste of characters

These names are as given in the orignal French version:

  • Dick Sand
  • Actéon
  • Alvez
  • Austin
  • Bat
  • Cousin Bénédict
  • Coïmbra
  • Dingo
  • Halima
  • Harris
  • Hercule, a recurring Verne character, here given the pseudonym Mgannga
  • Howik
  • Captain Hull
  • Ibn Hamis
  • Moina
  • Moini Loungga
  • Munito
  • Nan
  • Negoro
  • Tipo-Tipo
  • Tom
  • Samuel Vernon
  • Jack Weldon
  • James-W. Weldon
  • Mrs. Weldon

Sources

  • This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding French Wikipedia article as of September 27, 2007.


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The Voyages: Five Weeks in a Balloon | Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras | Journey to the Center of the Earth | From the Earth to the Moon | In Search of the Castaways or Captain Grant's Children | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Around The Moon | A Floating City | The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa | The Fur Country | Around the World in Eighty Days | The Mysterious Island | The Survivors of the Chancellor | Michael Strogoff | Off On A Comet | The Child of the Cavern | Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen | The Begum's Millions | Tribulations of a Chinaman in China | The Steam House | Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon | The School of Robinsons | The Green Ray | The Headstrong Turk | The Vanished Diamond | The Archipelago on Fire | Mathias Sandorf | Ticket No. "9672" | Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds | North Against South | The Flight to France | Two Years' Vacation | Family Without a Name | The Purchase of the North Pole | César Cascabel | Mrs. Branican | The Castle of the Carpathians | Claudius Bombarnac | Foundling Mick | The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Antifer | Propeller Island | Facing the Flag | Clovis Dardentor | The Sphinx of the Ice Fields or An Antarctic Mystery | The Mighty Orinoco | The Will of an Eccentric | Second Fatherland | The Village in the Treetops | The Stories of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin or The Sea Serpent | The Brothers Kip | Traveling Scholarships | A Drama in Livonia | The Master of the World | Invasion of the Sea


 
 

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