Quest for Kim: in search of Kipling's Great Game
Hardcover – Import, January 1, 1996
Description
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 asan 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 theUgandan 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. `Review from previous edition 'Charming and evocative, full of curious discoveries and unlikely serendipities ... highly recommended.'' William Dalrymple, Sunday Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Features & Highlights
- 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.
