From Sea To Sea - 9781548298869

For these reasons, and because he wished to study our winter birds of passage, one of the few thousand Englishmen in India on a date and in a place which have no concern with the story, sacrificed all his self-respect and became-at enormous personal inconvenience-a Globe-trotter going to Jeypore, and leaving behind him for a little while all that old and well-known life in which Commissioners and Deputy-Commissioners, Governors and Lieutenant-Governors, Aides-de-camp, Colonels and their wives, Majors, Captains, and Subalterns after their kind move and rule and govern and squabble and fight and sell each other's horses and tell wicked stories of their neighbours. But before he had fully settled into his part or accustomed himself to saying, "Please take out this luggage," to the coolies at the stations, he saw from the train the Taj wrapped in the mists of the morning.

• | Author: Rudyard Kipling
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 536 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1548298867
• | ISBN-13: 9781548298869