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Quest for "Kim": In Search of Kipling's Great Game,Peter Hopkirk
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Item specifics
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780192833082
- EAN
- 9780192833082
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Quest for Kim : in Search of Kipling's Great Game
- Item Height
- 190mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Topic
- Literature, Travel Writing
- Item Width
- 120mm
- Item Weight
- 239g
- Number of Pages
- 284 Pages
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Product Information
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 explores the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. He shows that most of the characters - Kim himself, the old Tibetan lama, Colonel Creighton, Mahbub Ali, Lurgan Sahib and the Babu (agent R17) - were inspired, in whole or in part, by actual individuals. Likewise, its locations are real - all of them familiar to the young Kipling when, more than a century ago, he worked as a reporter on a Lahore newspaper. Although Hopkirk trailed Kim and the lama across India and Pakistan, this is less a travel book than a literary detective story. It is not even essential to have read Kim in order to enjoy it, for Kipling's narrative is carefully sketched in as Hopkirk's quest unfolds. Because its hero is a teenage boy, many people mistakenly believe Kim to be a children's book. This book is intended for wide popular appeal as an adventure and espionage story; lovers of travel writing, of Hopkirk's writing, and of Kipling's writing; those interested in Indian history and the history of the Great Game.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780192833082
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90090739
Product Key Features
Book Title
Quest for Kim : in Search of Kipling's Great Game
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Travel Writing
Publication Year
1997
Number of Pages
284 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
190mm
Item Width
120mm
Item Weight
239g
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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