Letters Of Travel

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781406791259
Publisher:	Pomona Press
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

	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