"Captains courageous"
a story of the Grand Banks
by Rudyard Kipling
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The spoiled son of an American millionaire is washed overboard off Newfoundland and is picked up by a fishing boat. The boy experiences a great change in his perspective when he is forced to share the life and labour of the crew.
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At head of title: The works of Rudyard Kipling.
From the library of Sophie Kerr.
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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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