From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel - Couverture souple

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596058242 ISBN 13 : 9781596058248

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2006

Synopsis

I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in the latter class. -from No. VI Though he achieved lasting fame with his children's tale The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling left us with a vast array of writing that has fallen into sad-and unwarranted-obscurity. This collection of notes and essays on his world travels reveals a man bursting with self-deprecating wit, keen observational powers, and an intelligent awareness of his own cultural biases and prejudices. First published in 1899, this volume serves as a delightful reminder of Kipling's genius, and includes: . an account of attending the theater in Japan and visiting Shinto shrines . an exploration of India's "city of elephants" and a meeting with "the naughty children of Iquique" . notes on a journey to San Francisco and the taking of tea with the "natives" there . an explanation of how to "manufacture ethnological theories at railroad speed" . and much more. OF INTEREST TO: Kipling fans, readers of classic English literature, armchair travelers Also available from Cosimo Classics: Kipling's short-story collection The Courting of Dinah Shadd British author and poet RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) was born in colonial India, a locale that inspired his best-known works, The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Gunga Din (1892). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596058242
• ISBN 13: 9781596058248
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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