Captains Courageous (100th Anniversary Edition): Illustrated First Edition
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Publisher: SeaWolf Press
Dimensions: 6 x 0.42 x 9 inches
ISBN-10: 1952433401
ISBN-13: 978-1952433405
Publication Date: June 7, 2020
Print Length: 164 pages
Description: SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its 100th Anniversary Collection. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first or early edition. Use Amazon’s Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. You’ll be impressed by the differences.
Our version has:
- 22 original illustrations. Don’t be fooled by other versions with missing or made-up pictures.
- Text that has been proofread to avoid errors common in other versions.
- A beautiful cover that replicates the first edition cover.
- The complete text in an easy-to-read font similar to the original.
- Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, footnotes, italics, and tables.
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Captains Courageous, published in 1897, follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. After being washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship, he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure’s. It is Kipling’s only novel set entirely in America. Through a series of trials and adventures, Harvey, with the help of the captain’s son Dan Troop, becomes acclimated to the fishing lifestyle, and even skillful.
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