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Captains Courageous [e-bk]

The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageousendures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be ... More >The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageousendures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy's second voyage into the rugged rites and ways of sailors. Like all Kipling's masterworks, Captains Courageous is an interweaving of art and moral purpose.
File Size659.10 KB
PublisherCrown
Random House

Publish Date07/25/2006
Print Pages176
Print ISBN0553211900
eBook ISBN0553902814
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Rudyard Kipling
Kipling, who as a novelist dramatized the ambivalence of the British colonial experience, was born of English parents in Bombay and as a child knew Hindustani better than English. He spent an unhappy period of exile from his parents (and the Indian heat) with a harsh aunt in En...   <More>
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