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Rudyard KiplingCaptains Courageous (May 2, 2008)

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LibriVox recording of Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling.
Read by Mark F. Smith.

Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.

And when Harvey at last is reunited with his parents, who have thought him dead for months, he must face the hard decisions of how he will allow his experience to change his life. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)

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Artist/Composer: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 2008-05-02
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; fiction; adventure; saltwater fishing; rescues; teenage boys

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Kevint50 - - May 9, 2008
Subject: Captains Courageous
Well read. It is one more reminder of how good Kipling was, and not just with India and fanciful animal tales. He was one of the first to recieve a Nobel for literature.