{"product_id":"captains-courageous-signet-classics","title":"Captains Courageous (Signet Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kipling, Rudyard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e mass_market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 07-01-2014\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nOne of Rudyard Kipling’s most enduringly popular works, Captains Courageous is both a stirring tale of the sea and a classic coming-of-age story. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHarvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which their common survival depends. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWith an Introduction by Marilyn Sides\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n and an Afterword by Jane Yolen\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n“The most complete man of genius I have ever known.”—Henry James\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“Throughout the world his voice commanded more respect than any citizen other than heads of state.”—Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“Of Kipling’s personal decency there can be no doubt….I for one cannot help wishing that I could offer some kind of tribute.”—George Orwell\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nRudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay, the son of an Anglo-Indian professor of architectural sculpture. There he was brought up in the care of “ayahs,” or native nurses, who taught him Hindustani and the native lore that always haunted his imagination and can be seen reflected in \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Jungle Books. At the age of six, he was sent to England to be educated and returned to India in 19=883 to embark on a career in journalism, writing the news stories as well as the tales and poems that began to make his reputation. After seven years, he went back to England, the literary star of the hour. He married an American and stayed in Vermont off and on from 1892 to 1894. Then he returned to the English countryside, where he remained, except for a few trips abroad, for the rest of his life. The author of innumerable stories and poems, Rudyard Kipling is best known for \u003cbr\u003e\nSoldiers Three (1888), \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Light That Failed (1890), \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Jungle Books (1894–95), \u003cbr\u003e\nCaptains Courageous (1897), \u003cbr\u003e\nStalky \u0026amp; Co. (1899), \u003cbr\u003e\nKim (1901), and \u003cbr\u003e\nJust So Stories (1902). Among many other honors, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMarilyn Sides is the author of a collection of short stories,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Island of the Mapmaker’s Wife and Other Tales, and of a novel,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Genius of Affection. She teaches literature and fiction writing at Wellesley College.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJane Yolen, called \"the Hans Christian Andersen of America\"(\u003cbr\u003e\nNewsweek), has authored 335 books, including\u003cbr\u003e\nOwl Moon,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Devil’s Arithmetic, and\u003cbr\u003e\nHow Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. Her books and stories have won two Nebulas, a World Fantasy Award, a Caldecott Medal, the Golden Kite Award, two Christopher Medals, a National Book Award nomination, and the Jewish Book Award, among others. She won the World Fantasy Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the Science Fiction Poetry Association Grand Master Award, the Catholic Library’s Regina Medal, the Kerlan Medal from the University of Minnesota, the 2012 du Grummond Medal, and the Smith College Alumnae Medal. Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\nCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"That Cheyne boy's the biggest nuisance aboard,\" said a man in a frieze overcoat, shutting the door with a bang. \"He isn't wanted here. He's too fresh.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA white-haired German reached for a sandwich, and grunted between bites: \"I know der breed. Ameriga is full of dot kind. I dell you you should imbort ropes' ends free under your dariff.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Pshaw! There isn't any real harm to him. He's more to be pitied than anything,\" a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions under the wet skylight. \"They've dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. 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