Publication

2006-02-20 - 1st World Library - Literary Society

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Word Count

55000 words, Guess

Page Count

220 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101421808668
  • ISBN-139781421808666
  • Open LibraryOL30537173M

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.

First Sentence

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.

Subjects

Topics

MerBoysRomanPêcheFishersReadingFiction

Places

New EnglandGrand Banks of Newfoundland

People

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

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