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23%OFFPeter Hopkirk - Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game - 9780719564529 - V9780719564529
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Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game

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Description for Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game Paperback. 'A fascinating, brilliantly written book' Times Literary Supplement Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp black and white. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JMC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
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 places, thus blurring the line between the real and the imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719564529
SKU
V9780719564529
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Ref
99-10

About Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set: Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, Russia, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He 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 was twice held in secret ... Read more

Reviews for Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game
'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'
Scotsman

Goodreads reviews for Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game


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