Dick Sand

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, who contributed to the development of the genre of the adventure fiction. The adventure fiction features the strict opposition between the good characters and the evil ones. It also features the exaggeration of the experience and feelings as well as the use of mysteries and riddles. An unexpected ending is typical of such stories. He is often considered the founding father of the science-fiction as well. According to UNESCO Jules Verne's are on the second place out of all the books in the world, judging on the amount of their translations.


'Dick Sand or A Captain at Fifteen' is an adventure novel first published in 1878. The central figure if the story is Dick Sand, a fifteen years old boy who have to be in charge of a ship, the whole crew of which have died after the attack of a whale. Eventually the ship comes to the shores of some exotic land. There they meet an American who tells them they've come to South America, but some strange details point that he is lying… Where are they? Read this brilliant adventure story and you will know!