Jules VERNE & Jules VERNE 
Dick Sand a captain at fifteen [EPUB ebook] 

Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner ‚Pilgrim‘ as a sailor. The crew are whale hunters that voyage every year down to New Zealand. After an unsuccessful season of hunting, as they plan to return the wife of the owner of the hunting firm, Mrs Weldon, her five-year-old son Jack Weldon and her cousin, Bénédict, an entomologist ask for a return passage to San Francisco.