Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

First published 1896 · 150 pages

About this book

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.

  • Teenage boys
  • Fishers
  • Fiction
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Reading
  • Literature
  • Fisher (Mammal)
  • Self-perception

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