Name: Captain Courageous (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated Edition
Price: 166.00 ZAR
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Author: Kipling, Rudyard
ISBN: 9788027335374

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Captain Courageous (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated Edition

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Publisher

E-Artnow

Language

English

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN13

9788027335374

Synopsis "Captain Courageous (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated Edition"

Captains Courageous is an adventure novel. The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego, California. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Disko Troop, captain of the schooner We're Here, offers him temporary membership in the crew until they return to port, and Harvey later accepts. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Rudyard Kipling

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Bombay, (1865-1936). Rudyard Kipling wrote novels, poems, and stories mainly set in India and Burma during the British rule. Kipling was a prolific and popular writer, and his literature always revolves around three axes: patriotism, the duty of the English to lead a life of intense activity, and the destiny of England, called to be a great empire. His insistence on this last aspect was undoubtedly an echo of the Victorian past, and severely damaged his reputation as a writer, despite being the first British author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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