Captains Courageous

By Rudyard Kipling

Subjects: Boys, Reading (Secondary), Schooners, New england, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Enfants de riches, European, Seafaring life, Pêche en mer (Sport), Literature, Garçons adolescents, Open Library Staff Picks, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Self-perception, fiction, Fiction, sea stories, Teenage boys, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Large type books, Accessible book, Sauvetages, Reading interests, Self-perception, Récits de mer, Romans, nouvelles, Fishers, Comic books, strips, Children of the rich, Interpersonal relations, Coming of age, LITERARY CRITICISM, Saltwater fishing, Fiction, action & adventure, Mer, Roman, Protected DAISY, Récits et Légendes, Fiction, Children's fiction, Fishing, fiction, Remedial teaching, Pêcheurs, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fishing boats, Juvenile fiction, Sea stories, Pêche, Adventure and adventurers, Rescues, Bateaux de pêche, Classic Literature, Fisher (Mammal), Captains courageous (Motion picture), Reading, Interpersonal relations, fiction

Description: Captains Courageous tells of the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic. He must work as a ship's boy for a fishing season after being washed overboard from an ocean liner.