When Harvey, the spoiled fifteen-year-old son of a railroad tycoon, falls overboards, he is saved by a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach him about fishing and life on the boat. A fun, thrilling adventure on the sea, “Captains Courageous” from 1897 is Kipling’s only novel set entirely in America.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is “The Jungle Book” (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film starring Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, and Lupita Nyong’o. In 1941, he became the first English-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
