Captain at fifteen

First published in 1878 novel by French writer, classic fantasy-adventure fiction of Jules Verne's "captain at Fifteen" tells about the adventures of young dick sand, which by chance forced to take control of the whaling schooner "pilgrim", heading to America, and responsibility for the lives of her crew and passengers. In the open sea and the mainland in the depths of Equatorial Africa the characters of the book have to face many dangers, and not just to face death. A deadly confrontation between the bandits, slavers, stay in the village of wizards, risky meetings with savages, cannibals, wild animals, and the rapid waters of the rivers in Africa — through these and many other tests will have to go to dick and his companions before they escape from the ominous jungle of the African continent...