Book description
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian
life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since
childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the
Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps
across Kipling's India to see how much of it remains. To attempt this
with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is
different. For much of this Great Game classic was inspired by actual
people and places, thus blurring the line between the real and the
imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary detective story, this is
the intriguing story of Peter Hopkirk's quest for Kim and a host of
other shadowy figures.
'This beautifully written and beguiling travel book will fascinate
even those who have never read Kim'
Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books
are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran,
and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York
correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on
The Times
. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police
cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been
translated into fourteen languages.
