Kipling and the Sea: Voyages and Discoveries from North Atlantic to South Pacific - Hardcover

Rudyard Kipling

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780762739 ISBN 13: 9781780762739

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2014

Synopsis

Kipling may be best known as a commentator on the British Empire, but he was also a vivid observer and chronicler of the sea - and of ships and all who sailed in them. For him the sea was the glue which bound the British Empire together. To reach distant lands, you needed to sail. So Kipling wrote copiously about his own voyages - to India, across the Pacific and Atlantic, down to South Africa and Australia - and about the voyages of others. Sailors were particular heroes of his, as adventurers who braved every kind of element and danger in order to reach distant lands. In writing about them, he was enthralled by the romance of the sea, touching on everything from pirates to technical changes in ships.

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About the Author

ANDREW LYCETT is the author of an acclaimed biography of Rudyard Kipling and also editor of our own successful anthology, Kipling Abroad (I.B.Tauris, 2010). As a former foreign correspondent, he has travelled widely and worked in most parts of the world written about by Kipling. His other books include the highly regarded lives of Ian Fleming, Dylan Thomas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. He is a member of the Council of the Kipling Society and a Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780762739
• ISBN 13: 9781780762739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Andrew Lycett