In 1876 the San Francisco whaler Pilgrim loses her captain and crew to a harpooned whale in the southern seas, leaving fifteen-year-old apprentice Dick Sand in charge of the ship, the owner’s wife and child, five rescued African Americans and a treacherous cook named Negoro. Steering for South America, they come ashore somewhere far stranger, in the heart of the Angolan slave trade.
Verne turns a sea yarn into a fierce indictment of the African slave trade, with a young hero readers of any age can follow. Download the free EPUB.