Quest for Kim : In Search of Kipling's Great Game (Paperback)

from CarltonC

For those who have read and admired Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, this is a fascinating travel book trying to retrace Kim's footsteps as he travels through India and identify possible real people for the characters. The prose is adequate to the task, but is not inspired, as for example William Dalrymp...

from DramMan

The title says it all: this is a travelogue following the plot line of Kipling's Kim and winkling out the real life places an people who inspired Kipling's "Kim". Reads well, quickly, written in a chatty style. As one who has never read Kipling, this book may persuade me to give him a go, as Pete...

from CarltonC

For those who have read and admired Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, this is a fascinating travel book trying to retrace Kim's footsteps as he travels through India and identify possible real people for the characters. The prose is adequate to the task, but is not inspired, as for example William Dalrymp...

from mgreenla

A interesting book to pick up and read after a trip though the Kipling classic "Kim". Peter Hopkirk goes on a trip of a lifetime to find the places mentioned in Kim. This book is a cross between a travelogue and a literary review of "Kim". Enjoyable enough that I finished it in one night.

from karen-s

Found it tedious and dull. Flat travelogue approach to local of Kim.