Rudyard Kipling 
Captains Courageous 

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 Mc Clure’s, beginning with the November 1896 edition. In 1900, in his essay "What We Can Expect of the American Boy, " Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book and praised Kipling for describing "in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do."(Excerpt from Wikipedia)