Letters of Travel (1892-1913)

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

Excerpt:"After the gloom of grey Atlantic weather, our ship came to America in a flood of winter sunshine that made unaccustomed eyelids blink, and the New Yorker, who is nothing if not modest, said, 'This isn't a sample of our really fine days. Wait until such and such times come, or go to such and a such a quarter of the city.' We were content, and more than content, to drift aimlessly up and down the brilliant streets, wondering a little why the finest light should be wasted on the worst pavements in the world; to walk round and round Madison Square, because that was full of beautifully dressed babies playing counting-out games, or to gaze reverently at the broad-shouldered, pug-nosed Irish New York policemen. Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted, working nine hours a day, with the colour and the clean-cut lines of perspective that he makes. That any one should dare to call this climate muggy, yea, even 'subtropical,' was a shock. There came such a man, and he said, 'Go north if you want weather—weather that is weather. Go to New England.'"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783962725884
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	10/17/2018
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	179
File size:	865 KB

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling; (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". (Wikipedia)

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