![]() ![]() ![]() Her skipper is a burly Gloucester, Massachusetts-based cod fisherman named Disko Troop, whose son Dan becomes Harvey’s best friend. When Harvey falls overboard off a big luxury steamer, he is rescued by a fisherman and nursed back to health on the schooner We’re Here. Harvey is the spoiled-brat son of an American railway tycoon (year: 1896). Kipling introduces us to this magical world through the character of Harvey Cheyne. ![]() And there are other sorts of magic in this story, too– a bit of voodoo, a bit of prophecy, and a good deal about the superstitions and ghostly tales and eerie experiences that men of the sea share. Certainly the vocabulary of fishing and boats is challenging and mysterious to the newly initiated, but I think many of you (boys especially) could find it a very exciting, even addicting subject. And it is yet another “adventure at sea” that I recommend to lovers of magical worlds, on the rationale that the sea is very much another world, strange and even magical to many of us. ![]() This book in particular was inspired by the deep-sea fisherman of the New England seaboard. But you may not know that he married an American woman and wrote some of his best-loved works while living in Vermont, USA. Kipling, as you probably know, was a British author with strong ties to India. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |