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Works of Rudyard Kipling Travel Writings - Fantastic!
India (and Pakistan), Singapore, Japan, Taipan, Hong Kong, and more
from his correspondence and occasional articles written for the Civil and Military Gazette and the Pioneer between 1887 - 1889
"Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick-certificate, are
flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the
great Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it.
It is good to escape for a time from the House of Rimmon -- be it
office or cutchery -- and to go abroad under no more exacting master
than personal inclination, and with no more definite plan of travel
than has the horse, escaped from pasture, free upon the countryside.
The first result of such freedom is extreme bewilderment, and the
second reduces the freed to a state of mind which, for his sins, must
be the normal portion of the Globe-trotter -- the man who "does"
kingdoms in days and writes books upon them in weeks. And this
desperate facility is not as strange as it seems..."
Highly readable! Would be a nice gift!
CONDITION:Hardcover Scribners, embossed
cover, no DJ as published, 3 photogravure plates within, in mint to
near mint condition with only wear light aging to spine (sunning)
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