Sea

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

A spoiled American boy falls off an ocean liner and is picked up by a fishing schooner on the Grand Banks, whose captain will not turn back to port for him. Harvey has to work, and he grows up. Kipling went to Gloucester to learn how the fishermen really lived.

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Reading time

About 3 hr 35 min

Where to find it

Tidebound Quay, on the night railway

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2186. In the public domain in the United States.