Fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne, heir to an American railroad fortune, is washed overboard from a transatlantic liner and picked up by the We’re Here, a Gloucester schooner fishing the Grand Banks. Her skipper, Disko Troop, refuses to turn back and puts him to work, and over a season of cod, fog and storm the boy learns what labour means.
Kipling’s 1897 coming-of-age story, a vivid record of the Grand Banks cod fishery and the men who worked it. Download the free EPUB.