Captains Courageous by Kipling

[Talbot]

Good book , well worth a read, and an e version can be downloaded for free from gutenberg or even http://kipling.thefreelibrary.com/Captains-Courageous

 

[Poignard]

If you like that "down-home" style of writing you might also enjoy "The Southseaman" by Weston Martyr. I think it was one of the Mariners' Library series published by Rupert Hart-Davis