From Sea to Sea; Letters of TravelKipling, Rudyard
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From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel
Kipling, Rudyard
Asia -- Description and travel; Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Travel; United States -- Description and travel; Voyages and travels
Of the Well-dressed Islanders of Singapur and their
Diversions; proving that All Stations are exactly Alike.
Shows how One Chicago Jew and an American Child can poison
the Purest Mind 240
VII
Shows how I arrived in China and saw entirely through the
Great Wall and out upon the Other Side 247
VIII
Of Jenny and her Friends. Showing how a Man may go to see
Life and meet Death there. Of the Felicity of Life and the
Happiness of Corinthian Kate. The Woman and the Cholera 259
IX
Some Talk with a Taipan and a General: proves in what
Manner a Sea Picnic may be a Success 268
X
Shows how I came to Goblin Market and took a Scunner at it
and cursed the Chinese People. Shows further how I
initiated all Hong-Kong into our Fraternity 281
XI
Of Japan at Ten Hours' Sight, containing a Complete
Account of the Manners and Customs of its People, a
History of its Constitution, Products, Art, and
Civilisation, and omitting a Tiffin in a Tea-house with
O-Toyo 291
XII
A Further Consideration of Japan. The Inland Sea and Good
Cookery. The Mystery of Passports and Consulates and
Certain Other Matters 305
XIII
The Japanese Theatre and the Story of the Thunder Cat.
Treating also of the Quiet Places and the Dead Man in the
Street 313
XIV
Explains in what Manner I was taken to Venice in the Rain
and climbed into a Devil Fort; a Tin-pot Exhibition and a
Bath. Of the Maiden and the Boltless Door, the Cultivator
and his Fields, and the Manufacture of Ethnological
Theories at Railroad Speed. Ends with Kioto 323
XV
Kioto, and how I fell in Love with the Chief Belle there
after I had conferred with Certain China Merchants who
trafficked in Tea. Shows further how, in a Great Temple, I
broke the Tenth Commandment in Fifty-three Places and
bowed down before Kano and a Carpenter. Takes me to
Arashima 337
XVI
The Party in the Parlour who played Games. A Complete
History of All Modern Japanese Art; a Survey of the Past
and a Prophecy of the Future, arranged and composed in the
Kioto Factories 352
XVII
Of the Nature of the Tokaido and Japanese Railway
Construction. One Traveller explains the Life of the
Sahib-Log, and Another the Origin of Dice. Of the Babies
in the Bath Tub and the Man in D. T. 363
XVIII
Concerning a Hot-water Tap, and Some General Conversation 375
XIX
The Legend of Nikko Ford and the Story of the Avoidance of
Misfortune 386
XX
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