: Rudyard Kipling
: Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks
: The Floating Press
: 9781775415886
: 1
: CHF 4.90
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth of the spoiled young son of a railroad tycoon. Aboard a fishing boat after being washed off his transatlantic steamship, Harvey Cheyne Jr. is unable to convince his rescuers to return him to shore. Instead the captain offers him a place in the crew and, given that he has no other choice, the boy accepts.