"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936).
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"Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks" by Rudyard Kipling is a novel published in 1897. When fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the pampered son of a railroad tycoon, falls overboard from a steamship, he's rescued by a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks. Unable to convince the crew of his wealth or persuade them to take him home, Harvey must work alongside the fishermen for an entire season at sea, learning hard lessons about labor, humility, and manhood in the unforgiving world of the cod fishery.
Book and edition facts
- Title: "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks
- Author credits: Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Bildungsromans
- Children of the rich -- Fiction
- Fishers -- Fiction
- Fishing boats -- Fiction
- Grand Banks of Newfoundland -- Fiction
- Rescues -- Fiction
- Saltwater fishing -- Fiction
- Sea stories
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
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- Adventure
- Category: Adventure
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
- Movie Books
- Nobel Prizes in Literature
- Scouts
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