Captains Courageous
Kipling fishing novel
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling about a spoiled wealthy teenager who falls overboard from an ocean liner and is rescued by a fishing schooner.
Forced to work alongside the crew, he transforms from a pampered brat into a capable young man.
The title has become shorthand for stories of character-building through hardship and honest labor.
- fishingCatching aquatic creatures
- fishing boatWatercraft for catching fish
- KiplingVictorian jungle storyteller
- schoonerMulti-masted sailing craft
- GloucesterCoastal city in Massachusetts
New England · cod · Harvey · sea · boy · nets · Grand Banks · Atlantic · fog · storm · rough seas · sailors · old salt · mast · adventure · coming-of-age · novel · coming of age
Captains CourageousLord of the Flies
Dystopian island survival allegory
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