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Title: Captains Courageous

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 107 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Captains Courageous is Rudyard Kiplings classic fable of a boys initiation into the fellowship of men, played out on the high seas of the late 1800s. When he falls overboard from a luxury liner, Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American millionaire, is rescued by a small New England fishing schooner. To earn his keep, Harvey must prove his worth in the only way the skipper and his hardy crew will accept: through the grueling mastery of a fishermans skills. Brimming with salty dialogue, crackling adventure, and mesmerizing visions of the sea, Captains Courageous is one of this Nobel Prize-winning authors most enduringly popular tales.

Editorial Reviews:

Award-winning voice actor George Guidall gives a superb performance of the 1897 coming-of-age tale Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. Guidall inhabits each character with ease, breathing life into this crackling story. Harvey Cheyne, Jr., the teenage son of a tycoon, is traveling on a luxury steamship when he goes overboard. Fishermen on a schooner save him, and allow him to stay onboard if he works as part of the crew. So begins his sensational adventures on the high seas, where he seizes the chance to prove his worth as a man.

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