Captains courageous
a story of the Grand Banks
by Rudyard Kipling
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Captains Courageous tells of the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic. He must work as a ship's boy for a fishing season after being washed overboard from an ocean liner.
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Stewart, J.M. Kipling, p. 150
Gift of Rear Admiral Lloyd H. Chandler, U.S.N., Jan. 4, 1937.
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"The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet."
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