Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks - Illustrated (Paperback)

from Dorritt

Postponed reading this for years because I had this preconceived notion that it was a "children's classic" - heavy on adventure, light on deeper meaning. Sure enough, the first 2/3rds of the tale are devoted to the adventures of Harvey, a spoiled, wealthy 13yr old boy travelling across the Atlant...

from jawalter

eBookNot nearly as much fun as Kipling's other books (or at least the ones I've read). In fact, the book seems just fundamentally flawed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the joy of a fish-out-of-water story comes from watching the fish flop around in unfamiliar territory for a while before finally f...

from Stbalbach

In Captains Courageous the detail of fishing life are authentic, indeed anthropological. Kipling spent time in Gloucester and even went out on a ship for a while (though he spent most of the time sea-sick). He had an associate and the two collaborated, with Kipling writing the story and the assoc...

from muddyboy

The classic Kipling tale about a wealthy young boy who falls off a boat on the high seas to be rescued by a nearby fishing boat where this boy learns to be a man. Some people may be put off by all the nautical language and the slang commonly used by the sailors. However, these sailors are a fasci...

from RebaRelishesReading

the story of a spoiled 15-year-old who falls off of a passenger liner during a North Atlantic storm and is rescued by a cod schooner. The crew who rescue him don't believe that he is the son of a wealthy and powerful man and they refuse to interrupt their fishing season to return him to land. Thi...