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The plot of The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain is full of incredible events. The story begins when the entire crew of the whaling schooner Pilgrim dies, and the fate of several passengers and five people rescued in the ocean now depends on a fifteen-year-old boy. However, Jules Verne's protagonists are always strong-willed, intelligent, noble, and thanks to their knowledge and skills, they are able to overcome any difficulties. Dick Sand is the same way. At first, he had to take command of a schooner, and after the shipwreck off the coast of Africa, where they were stranded as a result of the treacherous actions of the ship's cook, he led a small group. On their way through the jungle, swamps, desert, and river rafting, they encountered many threats to their lives - predatory animals, slave traders, cannibals...