Download or read book Captain s Courageous written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captains Courageous ranks with all the great sea-adventure stories that will never lose their fascination for children as well as grownups. Kipling's "heroic conception of life,” as André Maurois called it, his admiration for bravery and courage wherever he might find it, never dimmed. In the tough Gloucester fishermen on the We're Here, sailing to the Grand Banks for their catches of cod and halibut, he recognized elements of glory, and in the schooner's skipper, Disko Troop, he portrays a kind of man he most admires. It is no wonder that soft, pampered young Harvey Cheyne rescued by the We're Here after falling from an ocean liner in the Atlantic is regenerated by his contact with such a man. Although Harvey fiercely resents being forced to work on the fishing schooner at a paltry ten dollars a month he grows tough and hardy, and learns to obey orders. At season s end, he is reunited with a father who is astonished and delighted by the change in his son.This edition includes a glossary to familiarize readers with nautical and late 19th century terms.This large print edition is typeset in 18 point Tiresias LP font.
Download or read book Captains Courageous Large Print Edition written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of a passing schooner offers him a job as crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts, and there begins a series of trials and adventures where the boy learns to adjust to his rough new life, and takes the first steps towards becoming a man.
Download or read book Captains Courageous written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captains Courageous Large Print Edition written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This premium quality large print volume includes the complete and unabridged text of Rudyard Kipling's timeless classic tale of a spoiled, self-centered boy unexpectedly thrust into the working crew aboard a Grand Banks fishing schooner in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 7.44"x9.69" page size, this Summit Classic Press large print edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and modern design and page layout exemplify the attention to detail given this collector-quality volume. By increasing the page size along with the font size we are able to reduce printing costs and make complete, unabridged large print editions available at reasonable cost. Captains Courageous was first published in serial form in 1896 while Kipling and his family were living in Vermont and published in novel form the following year. It tells the story of Harvey Cheyne, Jr., the arrogant and utterly self-absorbed son of a railroad tycoon who finds himself overboard during an ocean crossing. Rescued by a fishing schooner working the Grand Banks, Harvey, stranded as a member of the crew for the season, learns a series of lessons about life and manhood in this classic coming-of-age tale. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a prolific writer of short stories, poems, novels, travelogues and other commentary who is best known for his tales and poems about British soldiers in India and his children's stories. The first English-language recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, Kipling declined knighthood and appointment as Poet Laureate of Britain. Kipling's parents met and courted at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire before moving to India, and when their son was born in Bombay they recalled the lake in giving him the middle name by which he would be known as a writer. In keeping with the custom of the times Kipling's parents sent him to England when he was five - it was a horrifying experience for the boy - and at the age of 16 he returned to India to a job as a writer at a British-run newspaper in Lahore, now in Pakistan, a job arranged by his schoolteacher father. Kipling would always think of himself as "Anglo-Indian", even though he lived most of his life elsewhere, including a very productive four years spent in Vermont. Kipling published his first collection of poetry, "Departmental Ditties", in 1886. Between November 1886 and June 1887 he published an incredible thirty-nine short stories, and in 1888 volumes containing a total of forty-one stories were published in book form. He continued to write throughout his life, at a frenetic pace that did not slow until after World War I, and his work remains popular today. Regarded as a major innovator in the development of the short story, many of his works have become enduring classics and have never been out of print. Kipling's The Jungle Book (ISBN-13: 978-1494735951; ISBN-10: 1494735954) is also available in a premium quality, unabridged large print edition from Summit Classic Press.
Download or read book Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks written by Rudyard Kipling and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Israel Horovitz s Captains and Courage written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In Kipling's nineteenth-century story, Harvey Cheyne, an obnoxious rich boy, falls from the deck of a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing boat, the We're Here, owned by a black captain, Disko Troop. Aboard the We're Here, Harvey
Download or read book The Jungle Books Illustrated written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Top Five Books LLC. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Rudyard Kipling’s immortal The Jungle Books, includes: • Complete texts of both The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) • All of the Mowgli stories, plus “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” “The White Seal,” and many more tales and poems • 16 full-color illustrations by Maurice & Edward Detmold, plus more than 60 additional illustrations by William Drake and John Lockwood Kipling • Author’s Preface and Note on the Names, and a detailed author bio The Jungle Books collect some of the most beloved children’s stories ever written, since they were first published in magazines starting in 1893. The stories feature Mowgli, a foundling raised in the Seeonee hills of India by a pack of wolves, a wise black panther named Bagheera, and a gruff but lovable bear called Baloo. The books also include the beloved tale of the mongoose “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” “The White Seal,” and many more. These stories helped confirm Rudyard Kipling as one of the greatest children’s authors of any era, as well as one of the greatest writers and poets in the English language.
Download or read book Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks Large Print written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captains Courageous 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.
Download or read book Captains Courageous written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Playmore Publishers. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captain'sCourageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book, is thrown into an entirely alien environment. This is the only edition of the novel in print, and it offers a stimulating introduction and detailed notes which help readers navigate among the historical, geographical, andmaritime references found in the book.
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Download or read book Captains Courageous written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling, 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. Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. The captain takes him in as a boy on the crew until they return to port. Through a series of trials and adventures, Harvey, with the help of the captain's son Dan Troop, becomes acclimated to the fishing lifestyle, and even skillful.
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Download or read book Captains Courageous Annotated written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of a passing schooner offers him a job as crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts, and there begins a series of trials and adventures where the boy learns to adjust to his rough new life, and takes the first steps towards becoming a man.
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Download or read book Songs from Books written by Rudyard Kipling and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1913 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
