Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous is a 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. The book's title comes from the ballad "e;Mary Ambree"e;, which starts, "e;When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt"e;. Kipling had p...