Authors: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN-13: 9781426458576, ISBN-10: 1426458576
Format: Paperback
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Date Published: January 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Letters of Travel, originally published in 1920, is a collection of old articles on Japan, the United States, Canada and Egypt. This book was originally published in 1920.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was not yet 25 when he burst onto the literary scene in London, where his stories of Anglo-Indian life made him an instant celebrity. He won the Nobel Prize in 1907. Born in India in 1865 to an upper-class military family, he spent his early years in Britain and India and achieved his initial success as a reporter in India. He traveled widely and visited the U.S. a number of times, eventually building a house in Vermont. A restless wanderer, he ultimately settled in Sussex, only to have his world tumble into ruins with the death of his son in World War I.
Kipling is revered for his adult and children's stories and poems, but much of his life and writings is largely unknown in the United States. (Because he believed, and wrote, that Americans were ignorant provincials, his political views were not appreciated in the states.) Witty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's writings continue to delight readers of all ages.
From Tideway to Tideway (1892)-- | ||
In Sight of Monadnock | 3 | |
Across a Continent | 17 | |
The Edge of the East | 35 | |
Our Overseas Men | 50 | |
Some Earthquakes | 63 | |
Half-a-Dozen Pictures | 75 | |
"Captains Courageous" | 84 | |
On One Side Only | 95 | |
Leaves from a Winter Note-Book | 108 | |
Letters to the Family (1907)-- | ||
The Road to Quebec | 127 | |
A People at Home | 138 | |
Cities and Spaces | 148 | |
Newspapers and Democracy | 160 | |
Labour | 172 | |
The Fortunate Towns | 184 | |
Mountains and the Pacific | 197 | |
A Conclusion | 210 | |
Egypt of the Magicians (1913)-- | ||
Sea Travel | 223 | |
A Return to the East | 234 | |
A Serpent of Old Nile | 245 | |
Up the River | 255 | |
Dead Kings | 268 | |
The Face of the Desert | 280 | |
The Riddle of Empire | 290 |