"Captains Courageous" by Rudyard Kipling - Macmillan, London - 1898 first UK edition, third issue - 18cmx15cm - condition: good, in original blue publisher's binding with gilt ill., some rubbing to edges, name to ffep, some page staining, all illustrations present by Taber. Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by an American fishing schooner in the North Atlantic and is made to earn his keep as a member of the crew. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition with the last instalment appearing in May 1897. In that year, it was published in its entirety as a novel, first in the United States by Doubleday, and a month later in the United Kingdom by Macmillan.[1] It is Kipling's only novel set entirely in North America.[1] In 1900, Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book in his essay "What We Can Expect of the American Boy", praising Kipling for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do".