Captains Courageous
1897 adventure novel by Rudyard Kipling / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1] It is Kipling's only novel set entirely in North America.[1] 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".[3]
Author | Rudyard Kipling |
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Original title | "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks |
Illustrator | Isaac Walton Taber |
Language | English |
Genre | Adventure, nautical, juvenile |
Set in | Grand Banks, Gloucester, Gilded Age |
Published | 1897 |
Publisher | Doubleday, Doran (US), Macmillan and Co. (UK) |
Publication place | United States[1] |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 245 (hardcover, first edition)[2] |
ISBN | 0-89577-601-4 |
OCLC | 1010271996 |
823.8 | |
LC Class | PR4854 |
Text | Captains Courageous at Wikisource |
The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "Then captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times on 23 November 1892.[4]