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Book Review of Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Book Type: Paperback
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Kipling's classic story about a young student who falls overboard from a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing ship. The fishing captain does not believe him and so this student winds up working as he has never worked before. If he wants food and a berth he must toil mightily for the fish. A gripping portrait of the sea and its men.