There, Harvey's mother rewards the seaman Manuel, who initially rescued her son Harvey's father hires Dan to work on his prestigious tea clipper fleet and Harvey goes to Stanford to prepare for taking over his father's shipping lines. It is Kipling's only novel set entirely in America. I learned some shipping/sailing terminology but other than that it was just good. Click to read more about Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling. In 1900, Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book in his essay "What We Can Expect of the American Boy," praising Kipling for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do. Old tales, too, he dug up, and the lists of dead and gone schooners whom he had loved, and I revelled in profligate abundance of detail-not necessarily for publication but for the joy of it. "Captain Courageous" in the singular is sometimes used as praise for a leader of a group or team, e.g. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. This book was a refreshing change from modern life. My story was Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. "Captains Courageous" summary and study guide are also available on the mobile version of the website.
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