Quest for Kim
In Search of Kipling's Great Game
$38.35
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2006
Summary
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy’s recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim’s footsteps across Kipling’s India to see how much of it remains.
To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great Game classic was inspired by actual people and pl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719564529 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719564522 |
| Author: | Peter Hopkirk |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 151mm x 18mm |
| Series: | The Hungry Student |
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A brilliant jigsaw - Patrick Leigh Fermor, Spectator, Books of the YearThis beautifully written and beguiling travel book will fascinate even those who have never read Kim - Scotsman
A brilliant jigsaw - Patrick Leigh Fermor, Spectator, Books of the Year
This beautifully written and beguiling travel book will fascinate even those who have never read Kim - ScotsmanAbout The Author
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
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