The Bridge-builders - Couverture souple

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438523734 ISBN 13 : 9781438523736

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2009

Synopsis

So the bridge was two men's work-unless one counted Peroo, as Peroo certainly counted himself. He was a Lascar, a Kharva from Bulsar, familiar with every port between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of serang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had thrown up the service and gone inland, where men of his calibre were sure of employment. For his knowledge of tackle and the handling of heavy weights, Peroo was worth almost any price he might have chosen to put upon his services; but custom decreed the wage of the overhead-men, and Peroo was not within many silver pieces of his proper value. Neither running water nor extreme heights made him afraid; and, as an ex-serang, he knew how to hold authority. No piece of iron was so big or so badly placed that Peroo could not devise a tackle to lift it-a loose-ended, sagging arrangement, rigged with a scandalous amount of talking, but perfectly equal to the work in hand.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling's best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din." Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438523734
• ISBN 13: 9781438523736
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 50
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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