Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/480870to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters of Travel Author: Rudyard Kipling Narrator: Josh Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 1, 2019 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Letters of Travel comprises three books: From Tideway to Tideway 1892-95 contains pieces first published in the Times covering voyages across north America (USA and Canada) and in Japan; his Letters to the Family first appeared in the Morning Post, while Nash's Magazine was the first publisher of the articles (on Egypt and Sudan) in Egypt of the Magicians. Kipling's observations are cast in a wry style that permits, as his work often does, different readings. The unsympathetic reader can hear a banal repetition of the patriarchal, racist and imperialist ideas of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century trotted out. (Or even in his characterisation of the Jewish power behind the pedlar in 'The Face of the Desert' a suggestion of something worse.) A more nuanced reading will perceive an amused or wry smile in Kipling's remembering and the human sympathy that infuses all his writing. (US listeners should be warned that in Kipling's day 'the N word' was in common use, and he therefore uses it naturally to describe people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry.)

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