Captains Courageous

KIPLING, Rudyard

Published by Bantam Books, 1946

About this Item

KIPLING, Rudyard [184] pp. Bantam Books 1946 6 1/2" x 4 1/4" Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows 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. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition with the last instalment appearing in May 1897. In that year, it was published in its entirety as a novel, first in the United States by Doubleday, and a month later in the United Kingdom by Macmillan. It is Kipling's only novel set entirely in North America. 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".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Captains Courageous
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication Date: 1946
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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