Captains courageous
By: Rudyard Kipling
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781444810042
Subjects: Rescues; Fiction; Fishers
Description: Harvey Cheyne was fifteen years old, the son of an American business tycoon and spoiled by his parents. But then he was washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen, and neither Harvey, nor his affluence could persuade them to take him ashore. However, the Captain of the WE'RE HERE, Disko Troop, took him on as a member of the crew until they returned to port. Harvey befriended the captain's son, Dan, with whom he had many trials and adventures. When the schooner eventually returned to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, his parents found Harvey no longer the bad-mannered youth of before ...