Captains Courageous 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 a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.

The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition.

In 1900, in his essay "e;What We Can Expect of the American Boy,"e; Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book and praised Kipling for describing "e;in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do."e;(Excerpt from Wikipedia)