Quest for "Kim": In Search of Kipling's Great Game - Hardcover
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 detective story, this is the intriguing story of Peter Hopkirk's quest for Kim.
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Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely over many years in the regions where his six books are set: Central Asia, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Before turning full-time author, he worked for The Times for nearly twenty years, latterly as
an Asian affairs specialist. In the 1950s he edited the West African news magazine Drum, sister-paper to its legendary South African namesake. Before entering Fleet Street he served as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles - in the same battalion as lance-corporal Idi Amin, later to emerge as the
Ugandan tyrant. No stranger to misadventure, Hopkirk has twice been held in secret police cells - in Cuba and the Middle East - and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into thirteen languages.
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an Asian affairs specialist. In the 1950s he edited the West African news magazine Drum, sister-paper to its legendary South African namesake. Before entering Fleet Street he served as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles - in the same battalion as lance-corporal Idi Amin, later to emerge as the
Ugandan tyrant. No stranger to misadventure, Hopkirk has twice been held in secret police cells - in Cuba and the Middle East - and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into thirteen languages.
`Review from previous edition 'Charming and evocative, full of curious discoveries and unlikely serendipities ... highly recommended.'
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William Dalrymple, Sunday Times
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William Dalrymple, Sunday Times
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0719555604
- ISBN 13 9780719555602
- BindingHardcover
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