Captains courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
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Harvey Cheyne was fifteen years old, the son of an American business tycoon and spoiled by his parents. But then he was washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen, and neither Harvey, nor his affluence could persuade them to take him ashore. However, the Captain of the WE'RE HERE, Disko Troop, took him on as a member of the crew until they returned to port. Harvey befriended the captain's son, Dan, with whom he had many trials and adventures. When the schooner eventually returned to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, his parents found Harvey no longer the bad-mannered youth of before ...
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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, Large type books, Fishing, fiction, Children's fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Récits de mer, Comic books, strips, Roman, Récits et Légendes, Pêche, Mer, Protected DAISY, Accessible book, 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, SchoonersPeople
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Captains courageous: a story of the Grand Banks
2013, [CreateSpace Independent Pub. Platform]
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"The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet."
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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.
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