Kipling's Japan: Collected Writings

Rudyard Kipling, edited by Hugh Cortazzi & George Webb

ISBN 10: 0485113481 / ISBN 13: 9780485113488

Published by Athlone Press, 1988

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"THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling's newspaper dispatches from Japan were described by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as 'the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter'. These vivid pen-pictures, together with Kipling's other writings about Japan, are now collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb, carefully edited with an introduction wand Notes. Condition: This book is in good condition, although it is missing its dustjacket.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kipling's Japan: Collected Writings
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0485113481
• ISBN 13: 9780485113488
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling's newspaper despatches from Japan were decsribed by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as 'the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter'. These vivid pen-pictures, togteher with Kipling's other writings about Japan, are now collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and gerorge Webb, carefully edited with an introduction wand Notes.