Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous,novel by Kipling, published in 1897.
Harvey Cheyne, a 15-year-old pampered son of a Los Angeles millionaire, is lost overboard from a transatlantic steamer and picked up by the Gloucester fishing schooner We're Here. The schooner is commanded by Disko Troop, a seasoned Bank fisherman of high integrity and strong will, who hires the lad at $10 a month to work as a second boy. At first unwillingly, but later with interest and determination, Harvey learns the arts of sailing and fishing. From a weak, selfish, arrogant child he becomes a strong, self-reliant youth, and after many adventures with the fishing fleet returns home to develop further his interest in sailing ships. He partly repays his debt to Disko Troop by helping the latter's son Dan to become an officer on one of the elder Cheyne's Pacific ships.
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