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Dick Sands: The Boy Captain

Jules Verne

First published 1878
Publisher Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
Format octavo
Type Novel
Pages viii+486
Price 10/6

{{Tr|Ellen E. Frewer}}. This translation begins: "On the 2nd of February, 1873, the "Pilgrim," a tight little craft of 400 tons burden, lay in lat. 43°57′, S. and long. 165°19′, W. She was a schooner, the property of James W. Weldon, a wealthy Californian ship-owner who had fitted her out at San Francisco, expressly for the whale-fisheries in the southern seas."

Sources:

  • Title (Dick Sands over The Boy Captain), translator, translation, illustrated, publisher (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington), date (1879), page counts and contents from a scanned copy at the Bodleian Library.
  • Title (Dick Sands, The Boy Captain), date (December 1878), format (post 8vo), price (10s6d), translator and translation from Jules Verne Encyclopedia.

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