{"product_id":"from-sea-to-sea-and-other-sketches-letters-of-travel-paperback-9781108033688","title":"From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches; Letters of Travel (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108033688","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Sea to Sea and Other Sketches\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLetters of Travel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 1928 edition of an 1899 essay collection that vividly describes Kipling's 1887–9 travels in Asia and the USA.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRudyard Kipling (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108033688, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 July 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e520 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst published in book form in 1899, and reissued here in the 1928 Macmillan edition, this two-volume collection contains a series of letters and travel reports originally written for newspapers by the young Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) on his journeys around India, Burma, China, Japan and the United States between 1887 and 1889. The 1907 Nobel Prize winner's characteristic fluid writing style is already apparent in these funny, poignant and vivid articles and short stories. Providing revealing insights into Kipling's notions of imperialism and Englishness, the works also reflect the writer's keen observational powers, and a telling intelligent self-awareness of his own cultural prejudices. Volume 1 contains Kipling's Letters of Marque and twenty-four pieces from From Sea to Sea, including descriptions of his experiences of the Great Wall of China, Japanese theatre and visiting a slaughterhouse in Chicago.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Letters of Marque: 1. Of the beginning of things\u003cbr\u003e 2. Shows the charm of Rajputana and of Jeypore, the city of the Globe-trotters\u003cbr\u003e 3. Does not in any sort describe the dead city of Amber\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Temple of Mahadeo and the manners of such as see India\u003cbr\u003e 5. Of the sordidness of the supreme government on the revenue side\u003cbr\u003e 6. Showing how Her Majesty's mails went to Udaipur and fell out by the way\u003cbr\u003e 7. Touching the children of the sun and their city\u003cbr\u003e 8. Divers passages of speech and action whence the nature, arts, and disposition of the king and his subjects may be observed\u003cbr\u003e 9. Of the pig-drive which was a panther-killing, and of the departure to Chitor\u003cbr\u003e 10. A little of the history of Chitor, and the malpractices of a she-elephant\u003cbr\u003e 11. Proves conclusively the existence of the dark tower visited by Childe Rolande, and of 'Bogey' who frightens children\u003cbr\u003e 12. Contains the history of the Bhumia of Jhaswara, and the record of a visit to the house of strange stories\u003cbr\u003e 13. A king's house and country\u003cbr\u003e 14. Among the Houyhnhnms\u003cbr\u003e 15. Treats of the startling effect of a reduction in wages and the pleasures of loaferdom\u003cbr\u003e 16. The comedy of errors and the exploitation of Boondi\u003cbr\u003e 17. Shows that there may be poetry in a bank, and attempts to show the wonders of the palace of Boondi\u003cbr\u003e 18. Of the uncivilised night and the departure to things civilised\u003cbr\u003e 19. Comes back to the railway, after reflections on the management of the Empire\u003cbr\u003e From Sea to Sea: 1. Of freedom and the necessity of using her\u003cbr\u003e 2. The River of the Lost Footsteps and the Golden Mystery upon its banks\u003cbr\u003e 3. The City of Elephants which is governed by the Great God of Idleness, who lives on the top of a hill\u003cbr\u003e 4. Showing how I came to Palmiste Island the place of Paul and Virginia, and fell asleep in a garden\u003cbr\u003e 5. Of the threshold of the Far East and the dwellers thereon\u003cbr\u003e 6. Of the well-dressed islanders of Singapur and their diversions\u003cbr\u003e 7. Shows how I arrived in China and saw entirely through the Great Wall and out upon the other side\u003cbr\u003e 8. Of Jenny and her friends\u003cbr\u003e 9. Some talk with a Taipan and a General\u003cbr\u003e 10. Shows how I came to Goblin Market and took a scunner at it and cursed the Chinese People\u003cbr\u003e 11. Of Japan at ten hours' sight, containing a complete account of the manners and customs of its people, a history of its constitution, products, art, and civilisation, and omitting a tiffin in a tea-house with O-Toyo\u003cbr\u003e 12. A further consideration of Japan\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Japanese theatre and the story of the thunder cat\u003cbr\u003e 14. Explains in what manner I was taken to Venice in the rain, and climbed into a devil fort\u003cbr\u003e 15. Kioto, and how I fell in love with the chief belle there after I had conferred with certain China merchants who trafficked in tea\u003cbr\u003e 16. The party in the parlour who played games\u003cbr\u003e 17. Of the nature of the Tokaido and Japanese railway construction\u003cbr\u003e 18. Concerning a hot-water tap, and some general conversation\u003cbr\u003e 19. The legend of Nikko Ford and the story of the avoidance of misfortune\u003cbr\u003e 20. Shows how I grossly libelled the Japanese army, and edited a civil and military gazette which is not in the least trustworthy\u003cbr\u003e 21. Shows the similarity between the Babu and the Japanese\u003cbr\u003e 22. Shows how I came to America before my time and was much shaken in body and soul\u003cbr\u003e 23. How I got to San Francisco and took tea with the natives there\u003cbr\u003e 24. 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