He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting 'a versatile and luminous narrative gift'. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions. Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. One of Rudyard Kipling's most enduringly popular works, Captains Courageous is a stirring coming-of-age story.

Disko Troop, captain of the schooner We're Here, offers him temporary membership in the crew until they return to port, and Harvey later accepts. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego, California. Real men dont take guff from snotty kids. The book's title comes from the ballad 'Mary Ambree', which starts, 'When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt'. LibriVox recording of Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling. Captains Courageous is an adventure novel. 'CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS' A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS by Rudyard Kipling TO JAMES CONLAND, M.D., Brattleboro, Vermont I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old sea-faring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas.

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling