![]() 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. He shows that most of the 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. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here explores the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. ![]() 'This book is for all those who love Kim - that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Hopkirk's study of the 'Great Game' in nineteenth-century India through his exploration of the original background of Rudyard Kipling's Kim. (Dustwrapper slightly creased at edges and with small scuff on lower panel.) A very good, clean copy. 261.) Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, dustwrapper with illustration after Jonathan Wolstenholme, price-clipped. ![]() ![]() One full-page map and illustrations in the text illustrations after Janina Slater. ![]()
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