Quest for Kim: in Search of Kipling's Great Game
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- Publish date: 05/01/1997
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This book is for all those who love Kim, the masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game, the centuries-old power struggle between Russia and Great Britain in the depths of Central Asia. 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.
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"This is a fascinating, brilliantly written book, as interesting in its description of the author's journeys as it is in its investigation of the reality that lies behind 'the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme, ' as Kim has been described by Nirad Chaudhuri". -- T. J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement
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