Captain Courageous Author:Rudyard Kipling When Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from a luxury liner, to be saved by a deep-sea fishing ship, the richd, spoiled teenafter demands his rescuers turn about, jumping to his evry wish and whim. But Capt. Disko Troop thinks the boy's insane. He doesn't believe Cheyne's a tycoon's son; and if he did, it wouldn't matter. Troop and his crew work the ... more »sea and won't return to port until their holds are full -- in about six months. They don't need whining passengers; and Cheyne is going overboard again--
unless he learns to work for his breth. Cheyne must enter and confront a world of backbreaking struggle, the storm in his face, pitted against the majesty and terror of the ocean depths. A world of strong men who aren't agraid to laugh, cry, or battle nature with brave hearts -- for the sea is their joy, their torment, their life...and their death...And if Harvey Cheyne survives the challnge, he will never be the same.« less