Captains Courageous
$34.74
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2005
Summary
First published in 1897, Captain Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew of the fishing ship We’re Here. Obstinate and spoiled at first, Harvey in due course learns diligence and responsibility and earns the camaraderie of the seamen, who treat him as one of their own. A true test of character, Harvey’s months aboard the We’re Here provide a delightful glimpse of life at sea and well-told morals of discipline, empathy, and self-reliance.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142437711 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142437719 |
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2005 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 131mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year, he started work as a journalist in India. While there, he produced a body of work—stories, sketches, and poems, including “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever”—which made him an instant literary celebrity upon his return to England in 1889.
While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim, which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, placing him high among the chroniclers of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never again enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain at the Movies, Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Literature, Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic, Memory’s Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.
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