Kipling Abroad

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Rudyard Kipling is the doyen of travel writers. His genius for evoking the sights, sounds & atmosphere of a place was crystallised in his fiction, in which he introduced Victorian readers to the drama & exoticism of the East. The teaming, dusty Grand Trunk Road springs to life off the pages of Kim, while the misty heights of imperial Simla provide an identifiable & almost tangible physical background to Plain Tales from the Hills. Kipling`s poetry, journalism & letters also encapsulated the spirit of the places he visited, from Egypt, India & Brazil to the United States & Southern Africa. He was fascinated by the practicalities & potential of travel, the people encountered & experiences had. At a time when tourism was in its infancy, he prophetically reflected on the effects of mass transport & the `globe trotters` who thronged to India. With his darting, universal mind, he was the first person to understand the relationship between travel & globalisation. ” Kipling Abroad” gathers together some of the most descriptive & revealing of his travel writing, which has never before been published in one volume. Introduced & edited by Andrew Lycett, author of an acclaimed biography of Kipling, it captures the range, curiosity & sheer talent of one of our best loved authors, revealing as much about Kipling himself as it does about the places he visited.