The Classic Work of the Father of Science Fiction: the Fifteen-year-old Captain (volume 1)
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This is Verne's classic work. For readers who like Verne's works, this book is worth reading. This book describes that after the whaling ship "Sea Wanderer" ended its whaling operations in the Antarctic Circle, it sailed to New Zealand. Captain Hull sent the temporarily hired and rather difficult crew ashore. In addition to himself, there were five sailors and an apprentice sailor on board. At this time, Mrs. Weldon, the wife of the owner of the "Wanderer" who was staying in New Zealand, her five-year-old son Jack, her cousin Benedy, and a black man requested to take the "Wanderer" back to San Francisco, and Captain Hull readily agreed. At that time, there was also a temporarily hired chef in Auckland, named Nicolu, who was Portuguese. He was usually taciturn and rarely interacted with others. Captain Hull was not clear about his past experience. The "Wanderer" rescued five black Americans and a large dog on a cargo ship in distress during the voyage. These five black men were all free citizens of the United States, and Captain Hull promised to return them to the United States. But later Captain Hull and five sailors were all killed while chasing a whale, and fifteen-year-old apprentice sailor Dick Sant became the captain of the "Wanderer". He was brave and resourceful and led the crew through the stormy waves. However, Nicolù, the cook on the ship, was actually a slave trader. When Dick Saint was sleeping at night, he secretly changed the direction of the compass needle, so that the "Wanderer" did not sail to the American continent, but ran aground on the sparsely populated African coast and crashed. Nicolu colluded with Harris, an American black slave trader, and deceived all the people who died on the ship into the African interior. They helped each other and went through many hardships, and most of them finally returned to the United States. In this novel, the author Jules Verne denounced the inhumane slave system and praised Dick Saint and several black people for their bravery, tenacity and noble virtues of self-sacrifice. The plot of the book is tortuous and fascinating, and it also introduces the geographical features and strange animals and plants of Africa.
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