Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/007681515/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 33 of
33
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "Fascinated since childhood by Kim, that strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk, the renowned author of The Great Game, here sets out on an intriguing journey across India and Pakistan to unlock the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. As he travels, Hopkirk's detective work reveals that most of Kim's characters - Kim himself, the old Tibetan lama, Colonel Creighton, Mahbub Ali, Lurgan Sahib and the Babu (or agent R 17) - were inspired in whole or in part by actual individuals. Likewise its locations are real - all of them familiar to the young Kipling when, more than a century ago, he worked as a reporter on a Lahore newspaper. Because its hero is a teenage boy, many people mistakenly believe Kim to be a children's book. But nothing could be further from the truth, and modern critics judge it to be one of the finest novels in the English language, unsurpassed in many of its descriptive passages. For into it Kipling poured all of his deeply felt passion for India. Hopkirk carefully sketches in Kipling's narrative so that it is not essential to have read Kim in order to enjoy this book. It is both a travel adventure and a literary detective story, but above all an affectionate salute to Kim by one in whom it inspired a lifelong pursuit of the Great Game - "that never ceases day and night" and still goes on today.".
- catalog contributor b10618698.
- catalog coverage "India In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Pakistan In literature.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Because its hero is a teenage boy, many people mistakenly believe Kim to be a children's book. But nothing could be further from the truth, and modern critics judge it to be one of the finest novels in the English language, unsurpassed in many of its descriptive passages. For into it Kipling poured all of his deeply felt passion for India. Hopkirk carefully sketches in Kipling's narrative so that it is not essential to have read Kim in order to enjoy this book. It is both a travel adventure and a literary detective story, but above all an affectionate salute to Kim by one in whom it inspired a lifelong pursuit of the Great Game - "that never ceases day and night" and still goes on today.".
- catalog description "Fascinated since childhood by Kim, that strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk, the renowned author of The Great Game, here sets out on an intriguing journey across India and Pakistan to unlock the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. As he travels, Hopkirk's detective work reveals that most of Kim's characters - Kim himself, the old Tibetan lama, Colonel Creighton, Mahbub Ali, Lurgan Sahib and the Babu (or agent R 17) - were inspired in whole or in part by actual individuals. Likewise its locations are real - all of them familiar to the young Kipling when, more than a century ago, he worked as a reporter on a Lahore newspaper.".
- catalog description "Prologue: 'Here begins the Great Game ... ' -- Who Was Kim? -- Enter the Lama -- Enter Mahbub Ali -- 'The Te-rain' -- Searching for the Colonel's Bungalow -- The Red Bull -- Who Was Colonel Creighton? -- School for Spies -- The Secret World of Simla -- Lurgan Sahib's Vanishing Shop -- Jacob Strikes Back -- Enter the Russians -- Who Was the Babu? -- The River of the Arrow -- Epilogue: 'When everyone is dead ... '.".
- catalog extent "274 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Quest for Kim.".
- catalog identifier "0472108549 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Quest for Kim.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Quest for Kim.".
- catalog spatial "India In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Pakistan In literature.".
- catalog subject "823/.8 21".
- catalog subject "English literature Indic influences.".
- catalog subject "Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 Knowledge India.".
- catalog subject "Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 Knowledge Pakistan.".
- catalog subject "Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Kim.".
- catalog subject "Orphans in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR4854.K43 H67 1997".
- catalog subject "Spies in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: 'Here begins the Great Game ... ' -- Who Was Kim? -- Enter the Lama -- Enter Mahbub Ali -- 'The Te-rain' -- Searching for the Colonel's Bungalow -- The Red Bull -- Who Was Colonel Creighton? -- School for Spies -- The Secret World of Simla -- Lurgan Sahib's Vanishing Shop -- Jacob Strikes Back -- Enter the Russians -- Who Was the Babu? -- The River of the Arrow -- Epilogue: 'When everyone is dead ... '.".
- catalog title "Quest for Kim : in search of Kipling's great game / Peter Hopkirk ; illustrations by Janina Slater.".
- catalog type "text".