Pampered and lazy fifteen-year-old Harvey falls overboard into the sea and into a new life, the waves of which transform him into an honest young man of prowess.

Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling went to England to finish his studies and came back and lived in India for several years. He wrote a number of poems and tales, establishing himself as a writer of repute. In 1907 he became the first ever English writer to win the Nobel prize for literature.