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Meren Urhoja: Kertomus Suurilta Matalikoilta

1897

Rudyard Kipling

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Meren Urhoja: Kertomus Suurilta Matalikoilta

Rudyard Kipling

1897

Adventure, American Literature, Novels

Translated by Väinö Jaakkola

A pampered American heir falls from a luxury liner into the North Atlantic and is pulled from the dying sea by a Portuguese fishing crew who expect nothing from him but work. His wealthy parents mourn what they believe is a drowned son. Instead, the boy they raised to believe money buys everything must now pull rope alongside men who judge him only by what he can do with his hands. As Harvey Cheyne battles seasickness, contempt, and his own desperate arrogance, the ocean becomes both punishment and purifier. The fishermen ask nothing of him except that he become useful, that he learn the weight of honest labor, that he stop being a passenger in his own life. The sea doesn't care about his father's fortune. It only asks what he's made of. This is the rare adventure that refuses to stay on the surface. Beneath the salt spray and the cod fishing lies a fierce argument about class, work, and what it means to become a man.

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A novel likely written in the early 20th century. The story centers on Harvey Cheyne, a wealthy American boy who finds h...

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