Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
Publication date 2008-05-02
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, fiction, adventure, saltwater fishing, rescues, teenage boys
LibriVox recording of Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling.
Read by Mark F. Smith.
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.
And when Harvey at last is reunited with his parents, who have thought him dead for months, he must face the hard decisions of how he will allow his experience to change his life. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
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chapter one of captains courageous this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this recording is by mark smith of simpsonville south carolina
captain's courageous by rudyard kipling chapter one
the 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 that shane boyz the biggest nuisance aboard said a man in a freeze overcoat shutting the door with a bang he isn't wanted here he's too fresh a white-haired german reached for a sandwich and grunted between bites i know de breed america is full of dutch kind i tell you you should import ropes ends free under your tariff shah there isn't any real harm to him he's more to be pitied than anything a man from new york drawed 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 i was talking to his mother this morning she's a lovely lady but she don't pretend to manage him he's going to europe to finish his education education isn't begun yet this was a philadelphia and curled up in a corner that boy gets 200 a month pocket money he told me he isn't 16 either railroads his father aren't it said the german yep that and mines and lumber and shipping build one place at san diego the old man has another at los angeles owns half a dozen railroads half the lumber on the pacific slope and lets his wife spend the money the philadelphian went on lazily the west don't suit her she says she just tracks around with the boy and her nerves trying to find out what'll amuse him like yes florida adirondacks lakewood hot springs new york round again he isn't much more than a second-hand hotel clerk now when he's finished in europe he'll be a holy terror
what's the matter with the old man attending to him personally said a voice from the freeze ulster old man's piling up the rocks don't want to be disturbed i guess he'll find out his error a few years from now pity because there's a heap of good in the boy if you can get at it meet a rope's end mid a rope's end growled the german once more the door banged and a slight slim built boy perhaps 15 years old a half-smoked cigarette hanging from one corner of his mouth leaned in over the high foot way his pasty yellow...
