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L’avventura memorabile di un ragazzo che si allena a diventare uomo imparando a vedere oltre il pregiudizio.
«Quando si comincia a leggere Capitani Coraggiosi non si viene accolti da un’introduzione alle regole della navigazione, alla tecnica della pesca al merluzzo, alle leggi del mare… Ogni cosa la s’impara leggendo. E al principio si capisce poco, si avanza impacciati, proprio come il povero Harvey Cheyne, il protagonista del romanzo, che appena issato a bordo della goletta We’re Here si becca uno schiaffone dal Capitano perché non sa che al Capitano non si risponde. E tu, che leggi, ti accarezzi la guancia che brucia. Le pagine del libro si affrontano come Harvey affronta le giornate in mare. E dopo poche righe viene da assecondare il movimento della barca sulle onde, sembra di sentire l’odore del salmastro, del pesce nella stiva, del legno bagnato; si trema quando Harvey ha freddo e ci si sente spossati alla fine della pesca, come lui». Elisabetta Gnone
- ISBN: 8893811286
- Casa Editrice: Salani
- Pagine: 224
- Data di uscita: 18-05-2017
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Say what again? Harvey Cheyne Jr is a pampered child travelling with his wealthy parents in a transatlantic steamship through the Grand Banks. Accidentally falling from the ship, he is miraculously later rescued by a common casual sailor. By those hard chances of fate, he forcedly awakens to a new
Harvey Cheyne Jr. an arrogant fifteen -year- old, greatly disliked by the annoyed passengers, spoiled son of a multi -millionaire railroad tycoon from San Diego, ( my hometown) is being taken to Europe by his parents on a luxury liner, a steamship, set in the late nineteenth century. As they enter t Leggi tutto
I'm writing this review to honour the likes that my friends have bestowed upon this book. I tried to take part in a bookish bingo challenge, and, patting myself on the back, I got this Rudyard Kipling booklet. How awful could it get, right? It was so poorly paced that I thought I was reading a 900 p Leggi tutto
I read most of this aloud to my older boys as I was putting them to sleep at night, and I think that's probably the best way to navigate through Kipling's tale. It's a lot of fun, but if you're reading silently, not trying on the accents as Kipling's written them, I think you miss a lot. This book i Leggi tutto
This was a book I read as background for teaching British Literature, back when Barb and I were homeschooling our girls. My prior acquaintance with Kipling consisted of having read The Jungle Book as a kid, plus some of his short and short-ish fiction and a handful of his poems. (Though this novella Leggi tutto
This is Kipling's only novel concerning North America. It is consistent with his others in the underlying theme that experience is the great teacher. Harvey Cheyne is a coddled adolescent whose parents' wealth he takes for granted. The bulk of the story concerns his going over the rail on an Atlanti Leggi tutto
Second reading November 2016 First reading: August 2014 I didn't really expect to love a sailor's story but clearly I didn't have any idea how much Leadership Education can be cultivated on the dangerous fishing lines of the Atlantic. The book is totally different than anything else I have read by Ki Leggi tutto
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