In this Book
Kipling's America: Travel Letters, 1889-1895
Book
2003
Published by:
ELT Press

summary
Rudyard Kipling claimed that he never wrote "the bland drivel of the globetrotter." As a journalist for seven years in India, he watched
tourists scurry across the land and then publish their superficial impressions. Ironically over the course of his life, Kipling too became
a tourist, visiting and describing six continents. Kipling was just twenty-three years old when he reached San Francisco in May 1889; he
immediately began recording the sights and sounds of boom-town America. For four months he toured the United States, publishing accounts of
his journey in the Pioneer, a major newspaper in western India. A few years later, when he lived in Vermont (1892-1896) with his American
wife, Kipling wrote several syndicated articles published in both England and the U.S. Then in 1899 he revised and abridged the Pioneer
versions and published them in From Sea to Sea. The second series of syndicated articles he collected in Letters of Travel (1920). Most of
these travel writings are now out of print. In Kipling's America, Professor D. H. Stewart brings all of these articles together and
reproduces the original printed versions; he sets the context with an engaging introduction and helpful annotations. Readers are provided
with the opportunity to hear again Kipling at his cocky and often opinionated best. From Kipling's perspective, America unleashed the
chaotic energy latent in human beings, and he was uncertain whether this energy inevitably would be productive or destructive.
Table of Contents

pp. 1-10
pp. 23-30

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Download Letter Three: SHOWS HOW THROUGH FOLLY I ASSISTED AT A MURDER AND WAS PROPORTIONALLY AFRAID. THE RULE OF THE DEMOCRACY AND THE DESPOTISM OF THE ALIEN
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pp. 36-46

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Download Letter Five: TELLS HOW I DROPPED INTO POLITICS AND THE TENDERER SENTIMENTS. CONTAINS A MORAL TREATISE ON AMERICAN MAIDENS AND AN ETHNOLOGICAL ONE ON THE HUBSHI. ENDS WITH A BANQUET AND A TYPE-WRITER
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Download Letter Six: TAKES ME THROUGH BRET HARTE’S COUNTRY, AND TO PORT LAND WITH “OLD MAN CALIFORNIA.” EXPLAINS HOW TWO VAGABONDS BE CAME HOME SICK THROUGH LOOK ING AT OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
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Download Letter Ten: SHOWS HOW YANKEE JIM INTRODUCED ME TO DIANA OF THE CROSS WAYS ON THE BANKS OF THE YELLOWSTONE, AND HOW A GERMAN JEW SAID I WAS NO TRUE CITIZEN. ENDS WITH THE CELEBRATION OF THE 4TH OF JULY AND A FEW LESSONS THERE FROM
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Download Letter Eleven: SHOWS HOW I ENTERED MAZAN DERAN OF THE PERSIANS AND SAW DEVILS OF EVERY COLOUR, AND SOME TROOPERS. HELL AND THE OLD LADY FROM CHICAGO. THE CAPTAIN AND THE LIEUTENANT
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pp. 107-119

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Download Letter Twelve: ENDS WITH THE CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE, THE MAIDEN FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE, LARRY, “WRAP-UP-HIS-TAIL,” TOM, THE OLD LADY FROM CHICAGO, AND A FEW NATURAL PHENOMENA, INCLUDING ONE BRITON
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Download Letter Thirteen: OF THE AMERICAN ARMY AND THE CITY OF THE SAINTS. THE TEMPLE, THE BOOK OF MORMON, AND THE GIRL FROM DORSET. AN ORIENTAL CONSIDERATION OF POLYGAMY
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Download Letter Sixteen: HOW I STRUCK CHICAGO. AND HOW CHICAGO STRUCK ME. OF RELIGION, POLITICS, AND PIG-STICKING, —AND THE IN CARNATION OF THE CITY AMONG SHAMBLES
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PART II. FROM TIDE WAY TO TIDE WAY (1892–1895)
ISBN | 9780944318331 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9780944318171 |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 794700850 |
Pages | 324 |
Launched on MUSE | 2012-01-01 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |