"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling
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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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
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| Illustrator | Taber, I. W. (Isaac Walton), 1857-1933 |
| Title | "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captains_Courageous |
| Credits | Produced by Bill Stoddard and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 90.4 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Sea stories |
| Subject | Bildungsromans |
| Subject | Children of the rich -- Fiction |
| Subject | Saltwater fishing -- Fiction |
| Subject | Fishing boats -- Fiction |
| Subject | Teenage boys -- Fiction |
| Subject | Rescues -- Fiction |
| Subject | Fishers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Grand Banks of Newfoundland -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 2225 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 2000 |
| Last Update | Dec 31, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 617 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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