The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain

To command a ship at the age of fifteen? Nonsense. An instant promotion from cabin boy to captain is absurd. But what to do if all the others - adults, skilled, experienced - have died and you are the only one with any navigation skills? Dick Sand must save the ship and the passengers. Save them and bring them to civilization. However, among these people, the ones he trusted and for whose rescue he spared no effort, there is one for whom the safe return of the damaged ship to its home shores is absolutely undesirable. A slave trader. A criminal and a traitor. Many difficulties await the young man and his companions during their voyage, and then during their long wanderings through the African jungles.

This edition reproduces the complete set of 95 illustrations by the famous French artist Henri Meyer.