Captains Courageous

London: Macmillan & Co., 1897.

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Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by I.W. Tabor. A beautiful, fine and bright copy. The boys’ classic of a pampered, rich lad who accidentally falls in with a crusty fishing crew and has some sense knocked into him. Basis for the excellent Victor Fleming film featuring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the Portuguese fisherman.

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Item #83291 Captains Courageous. Rudyard KIPLING.
Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling
birth name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
born: 12/30/1865
died: 1/18/1936
nationality: Great Britain

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Biography

English novelist, short-story writer, and poet chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and Burma, and his excellent tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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