"Captains Courageous": Original and Unabridged

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling, follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroadtycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. The captain takes him in as a boy on the crew until they return to port.Through a series of trials and adventures, Harvey, with the help of the captain's son Dan Troop, becomes acclimated to the fishing lifestyle, and even skillful.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781499744545
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/31/2014
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His fiction works include The Jungle Book — a classic of children’s literature — and the rousing adventure novel Kim, as well as books of poems, short stories, and essays. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.