Captains Courageous. A story of the Grand Banks

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.

subjects: Teenage boys,  Fishers,  Fiction,  Interpersonal relations,  Reading,  Literature,  Fisher (Mammal),  Self-perception,  Children of the rich,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Classic Literature,  Reading (Secondary),  Sea stories,  Seafaring life,  Reading interests,  Rescues,  Remedial teaching,  Juvenile fiction,  Fishing boats,  Coming of age,  Saltwater fishing,  Adventure and adventurers,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, action & adventure,  Fishing, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Self-perception, fiction,  Interpersonal relations, fiction,  Récits de mer,  Comic books, strips,  Roman,  Récits et Légendes,  Pêche,  Mer,  Captains courageous (Motion picture),  Boys,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, sea stories,  Romans, nouvelles,  Enfants de riches,  Pêche en mer (Sport),  Bateaux de pêche,  Garçons adolescents,  Sauvetages,  Pêcheurs,  Adventure and adventurers, fiction,  New england, fiction,  Schooners,  Adventure stories,  Fiction, general,  Biography,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Goélettes,  Garçons,  Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse,  Values,  English Authors,  Écrivains anglais

People: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Places: Grand Banks of Newfoundland,  New England