He published Captains Courageous in 1896, when he was living on the east coast of the USA, and wrote it partly to record a fast-disappearing trade, where schooners sailed into the Atlantic for the whole of the summer to follow the cod, and fish for them from little wooden boats lowered from the side of the sailing ships in all kinds of weather. Instead, it’s about the deep-sea cod fisheries off the north-east coast of Massachusetts. Today’s letter in the Really Like This Book podcast script reruns is K, for Rudyard Kipling, and a Kipling novel that has nothing to do with India, or the war, or about soldiers: three of his most well-known subject areas.
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