Captains Courageous (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1897
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1890’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Values, Family or family life, Adolescence, Teenagers, Nineteenth century, Friendship, Canada or Canadians, Ships, Sea or seafaring life, Adventure, Castaways, Fishing or fishermen
- Locales: Grand Banks, Canada
Places Discussed
Grand Banks. North Atlantic Ocean region off the coast of Newfoundland that is the novel’s primary setting. Once the richest fishing area in the world, the 150,000-square-mile region mixes the frigid waters of the Labrador Current from the north with the warm waters of the Gulf Stream from the south. The mixture fosters a heavy plankton growth that makes it an ideal habitat for the fish such as cod, haddock, herring, and mackerel that Kipling’s schooner catches. At the time Kipling wrote, thousands of schooners from New England and Canadian ports annually...
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