A spoiled millionaire's son is knocked overboard, rescued by cod fishermen, and made a man by hard labor at sea. Kipling's rousing tale of the Grand Banks.
Books mentioned in Captains Courageous (2)
The Works of Josephus by Flavius Josephus: “so they compromised on his reading aloud from a book called "Josephus." It was an old leather-bound volume, smelling of a hundred voyages, very solid and very like the Bible”
Skipper Ireson's Ride by John Greenleaf Whittier: “Then they called on Harvey, who felt very flattered, to contribute to the entertainment; but all that he could remember were some pieces of "Skipper Ireson's Ride" that he had been taught at the camp-school in the Adirondacks.”