The Naulahka (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Story of West and East

by Rudyard Kipling, Wolcott Balestier

Overview

In Colorado, in the days when the railroad was king, two towns are vying for train station for a new railroad. When one town’s representative learns that the rail owner’s wife covets the Naulahka, a jeweled girdle in India, he journeys there to get it for her and becomes embroiled in a plan to save the heir to the throne before returning home to find out the fate of his town’s quest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411436824
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	385
File size:	334 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a past master of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”