Captains Courageous
About this book
Captains Courageous tells of 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. He must work as a ship's boy for a fishing season after being washed overboard from an ocean liner.
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- bateaux de pêche
- boys
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- captains courageous (motion picture)
- children of the rich
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- comic books, strips
- coming of age
- enfants de riches
- english, irish, scottish, welsh
- european
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, sea stories
- fisher (mammal)
- fishers
- fishing boats
- fishing, fiction
- garçons adolescents
- interpersonal relations
- interpersonal relations, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- literary criticism
- literature
- mer
- new england, fiction
- open library staff picks
- pêche
- pêche en mer (sport)
- pêcheurs
- reading
- reading interests
- reading (secondary)
- récits de mer
- récits et légendes
- remedial teaching
- rescues
- roman
- romans, nouvelles
- saltwater fishing
- sauvetages
- seafaring life
- sea stories
- self-perception
- self-perception, fiction
- teenage boys