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The Fifteen Year Old Captain is a novel by French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1878. The plot of the novel begins when almost the entire crew of the whaling brig Pilgrim dies in a fight with a whale. After the death of the sailors, Dick Sand, a fifteen-year-old boy, has to become the captain of the ship. Five blacks who happen to be on the ship help Dick sail to America, which is where the Pilgrim was supposed to go. But the treacherous Negoru, the ship's cook, secretly changes course. The friends end up in Africa because Negoru, an agent of slave owners, wants to take revenge on Dick and sell the blacks into slavery. All the passengers of the Pilgrim Brig find themselves in mortal danger, from which they manage to escape alive only thanks to Dick Sand...